Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
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: Paxillosida according to L. Villier et al. 2007
See also Blake 1989, Blake and Jagt 2005, Blake and Sturgeon 1995, Clark and Twitchell 1915, Donovan et al. 1993, Donovan et al. 2005, Ewin and Gale 2020, Fernández et al. 2014, Gale 1987, Gale 2011, Gale 2011, Gale 2020, Hess 1972, Mah and Blake 2012, Perrier 1884, Sladen 1889, Spencer and Wright 1966, Villier 2008 and Villier 2010
Sister taxa: Benthopectinidae, Cribellina, Ctenodiscidae, Diplozonina, Luidiidae, Notomyotina, Pseudarchasteridae
Subtaxa: Advenaster Aldebarania Astrocratis Astropecten Astropectininae Boxaster Coulonia Ctenophoraster Dipsacaster Eoastropecten Eokainaster Pentasteria Persephonaster Plutonaster Prothrissacanthias Riedaster Tethyaster
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Miocene of Chile (1), Egypt (1), Jamaica (1), Poland (1), United States (4: California, Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Jamaica (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Eocene of Antarctica (17), France (2), Jamaica (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: California, Oregon)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Belgium (10), Canada (2: Alberta), the Czech Republic (1), France (27), Germany (2), Greenland (2), Jamaica (2), Morocco (2), the Netherlands (8), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (9: Montana, North Carolina, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (12), Germany (3), India (1), Luxembourg (1), Poland (1), Switzerland (9), United States (3: Utah, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Austria (2), Germany (1)
Total: 149 collections including 176 occurrences