Ophiuroidea - Oegophiurida - Lapworthuridae

PaleoDB taxon number: 104452

Alternative combination: Protaster miltoni

Full reference: J. W. Salter. 1857. On some new Palaeozoic star-fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 20:321-334

Belongs to Lapworthura according to J. Dean Shackleton 2005

Sister taxa: Lapworthura lehmanni, Lapworthura sollasi

Type specimen: Neotype BMNH E20235a,b

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder