Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Alternative spelling: Asterias (Astropecten)
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1840. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma Asterias (Linn.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6:275-290
Parent taxon: Astropectinidae according to S. K. Donovan et al. 2005
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Gray 1840, McCoy 1848, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Advenaster, Aldebarania, Astrocratis, Astropectininae, Boxaster, Coulonia, Ctenophoraster, Dipsacaster, Eoastropecten, Eokainaster, Pentasteria, Persephonaster, Plutonaster, Prothrissacanthias, Riedaster, Tethyaster
Subtaxa: Astropecten adriaticus Astropecten aranciaca Astropecten armatus Astropecten bathonicus Astropecten betzensteinensis Astropecten bispinosus Astropecten bononiensis Astropecten castellanensis Astropecten casterasi Astropecten corroyi Astropecten crenulatus Astropecten delaunayi Astropecten forbesi Astropecten foveolatus Astropecten granulatus Astropecten helveticus Astropecten irregularis Astropecten linati Astropecten matilijaensis Astropecten montalionis Astropecten montanus Astropecten moutieri Astropecten navodicensis Astropecten ornatus Astropecten petrobonae Astropecten pichleri Astropecten piveteaui Astropecten porosus Astropecten scupini Astropecten soldanii Astropecten taurolaevis Astropecten verrucosus
Type: Asterias aranciaca
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Miocene of Chile (1), Egypt (1), Jamaica (1), Poland (1), United States (1: California)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Eocene of United States (3: California, Oregon)
• Paleocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of the Czech Republic (1), France (3), Greenland (2), United States (1: Montana)
• Jurassic of France (1)
• Triassic of Austria (2), Germany (1)
Total: 23 collections including 31 occurrences
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