†Terminaster Hess 1974 (sea star)
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Full reference: H. Hess. 1974. Neue Funde des Seesterns Terminaster cancriformis (Quenstedt) aus Callovien und Oxfor von England, Frankreich und Schweiz. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 67(3):647-659
Parent taxon: Zorocallida according to M. Fau and L. Villier 2023
See also Ewin and Gale 2020, Gale 2011, Gale 2011, Hess 1974, Sepkoski 2002 and Villier et al. 2009
Sister taxa: Protothyraster, Terminasteridae, Viridisaster
Subtaxa: Terminaster cancriformis
Type: Asterias cancriformis
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Belgium (1 collection), France (2), Germany (1), Luxembourg (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 6 collections including 7 occurrences
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