Parametopaster stainforthi Wright and Wright 1940

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Alternative combinations: Metopaster stainforthi, Recurvaster stainforthi

Full reference: C. W. Wright and E.V. Wright. 1940. Note on the Cretaceous Asteroidea. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 96(2):231-248

Belongs to Parametopaster according to G. Breton 1992

See also Gale 1987, Helm 1997, Schulz and Weitschat 1975 and Wright and Wright 1940

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

Type specimen: Natural History Museum, London, holotype BNHM WW 9328, paratype BNHM WW 3937, BN

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

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