Pentasteria Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous
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Pentasteria longispina | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | Asteroidea |
Order: | Paxillosida |
Family: | Astropectinidae |
Genus: | †Pentasteria Valette, 1929 |
Pentasteria is an extinct genus of sea star that lived from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in Europe.
Selected species
[edit]- Pentasteria boisteli
- Pentasteria elegans
- Pentasteria gataui
- Pentasteria liasica
- Pentasteria longispina
- Pentasteria recta
- Pentasteria tithonica
References
[edit]- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 186)
External links
[edit]- Pentasteria in the Paleobiology Database