Pentasteria
| Pentasteria Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous
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| Pentasteria longispina | |
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| Class: | Asteroidea
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| Genus: | Pentasteria Valette, 1929
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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[]
Sources[]
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 186)
External links[]
- Pentasteria in the Paleobiology Database
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Categories:
- Astropectinidae
- Prehistoric starfish genera
- Jurassic echinoderms
- Cretaceous echinoderms
- Prehistoric echinoderms of Europe
- Early Jurassic genus first appearances
- Early Cretaceous genus extinctions
- Prehistoric Asteroidea stubs