Tylasteria prisca Valette 1928 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Alternative combinations: Tylaster priscum, Tylaster priscus

Full reference: A. Valette. 1928. Note sur les débris de stelléridés du Bathonien de la Pouza. Travaux du Laboratoire de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon 13(2):62-66

Belongs to Tylasteria according to G. Breton 1992

See also Mercier 1935, Valette 1928, Valette 1929 and Valette 1929

Sister taxa: Tylasteria aalensis, Tylasteria jurensis, Tylasteria luciensis

Type specimen: Lectotypes at University of Burgundy and University Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of France (6 collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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