Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Alternative combination: Metopaster altus

Full reference: M. G. Schulz and W. Weitschat. 1975. Phylogenie und Stratigraphie der Asteroideen der norddeutschen Schreikreide. Teil 1: Metopaster/Recurvaster und Calliderma/Chomataster-Gruppe. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 44:249-284

Belongs to Parametopaster according to G. Breton 1992

See also Gale 1987 and Schulz and Weitschat 1975

Sister taxa: Parametopaster albocervus, Parametopaster fournieri, Parametopaster stainforthi, Parametopaster undulatus, Parametopaster villieri

Type specimen: Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institute, University of Hamburg, holotype SGPIH 17

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Parametopaster altus in the database

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