Protremaster
Protremaster Temporal range: Early Jurassic
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Class: | Asteroidea
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Genus: | Protremaster Smith and Tranter 1985
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Protremaster universalis Smith and Tranter 1985
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Protremaster is an extinct genus of sea stars that lived in the Early Jurassic (age range: 196.5 to 189.6 Ma). Its fossils have been found in the of Antarctica.[1]
Sources[]
- ^ : A. B. Smith and T.H. Tranter. 1985. Protremaster, a new lower jurassic genus of asteroid from Antarctica. Geological Magazine 122(4):351-359
External links[]
- [1] in the Paleobiology Database
Categories:
- Valvatida
- Prehistoric starfish genera
- Jurassic echinoderms
- Extinct animals of Antarctica
- Prehistoric Asteroidea stubs