Asteroidea - Valvatida - Stauranderasteridae
PaleoDB taxon number: 115464
Alternative combinations: Oreaster coronatus, Pentaceros coronatus
Full reference: E. Forbes. 1848. On the Asteriadae found fossil in British strata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology in London 2(2):457-482
Belongs to Stauranderaster according to W. K. Spencer and C.W. Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Stauranderaster bispinosus, Stauranderaster boysii, Stauranderaster dorecki, Stauranderaster laevis, Stauranderaster miliaris, Stauranderaster mixtus, Stauranderaster pistilliferus, Stauranderaster pyramidalis, Stauranderaster sanchezi, Stauranderaster serrata, Stauranderaster speculum
Type specimen: Natural History Museum, London, holotype BNHM OR 35480
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore