Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Alternative combinations: Metopaster stainforthi, Recurvaster stainforthi

Full reference: C. W. Wright and E.V. Wright. 1940. Note on the Cretaceous Asteroidea. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 96(2):231-248

Belongs to Parametopaster according to G. Breton 1992

Sister taxa: Parametopaster albocervus, Parametopaster altus, Parametopaster decipiens, Parametopaster fournieri, Parametopaster undulatus, Parametopaster villieri

Type specimen: Natural History Museum, London, holotype BNHM WW 9328, paratype BNHM WW 3937, BN

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore