Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Alternative combination: Pentagonaster dutempleana

Full reference: A. d'Orbigny. 1850. Prodrome du paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphique 2:1-428

Belongs to Nymphaster according to G. Breton 1992

See also d'Orbigny 1850 and Jagt et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Nymphaster albensis, Nymphaster alseni, Nymphaster arduennensis, Nymphaster coombii, Nymphaster fontis, Nymphaster humilis, Nymphaster magistrorum, Nymphaster marginatus, Nymphaster miocenicus, Nymphaster mudzborgh, Nymphaster obtusus, Nymphaster ornatus, Nymphaster peakei, Nymphaster rectus, Nymphaster spenceri, Nymphaster studlandensis, Nymphaster wrighti

Type specimen: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, MHNH 14658

Distribution: found only at Le Billot, Notre-Dame-de-Fresnay (Cretaceous of France)

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