Metopaster
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| Class: | Asteroidea
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| Genus: | Metopaster Sladen, 1893
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Metopaster is an extinct genus of sea star that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Early Eocene. Its fossils have been found in Europe.
Sources[]
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 188)
External links[]
- Metopaster in the Paleobiology Database
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Categories:
- Goniasteridae
- Prehistoric starfish genera
- Cretaceous echinoderms
- Paleocene echinoderms
- Eocene animals
- Prehistoric echinoderms of Europe
- Late Cretaceous genus first appearances
- Eocene genus extinctions
- Prehistoric Asteroidea stubs