Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Alternative combinations: Metopaster undulatus, Weitschataster undulatus
Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1913. The evolution of Cretaceous Asteroidea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, serie B 204:99-177
Belongs to Parametopaster according to G. Breton 1992
See also Brünnich-Nielsen 1943, Gale 1987, Jagt 1999, Jagt 2000, Lewis 1993, Müller 1953, Müller 1961, Neumann and Girod 2018, Rasmussen 1950, Rasmussen 1979, Reich and Frenzel 2002, Schulz and Weitschat 1975, Spencer 1913 and Wright and Wright 1940
Sister taxa: Parametopaster albocervus, Parametopaster altus, Parametopaster fournieri, Parametopaster stainforthi, Parametopaster villieri
Type specimen: Natural History Museum, London, holotype BNHM E 13274, paratypes BNHM 13275-8
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Germany (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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