Tropidaster
Tropidaster Temporal range: Early Jurassic
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Class: | Asteroidea
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Genus: | Tropidaster Forbes, 1850
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Tropidaster is an extinct genus of sea stars that lived in the Early Jurassic. Its fossils have been found in Europe.
Sources[]
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 187)
External links[]
- Tropidaster in the Paleobiology Database
Categories:
- Velatida
- Prehistoric starfish genera
- Jurassic echinoderms
- Prehistoric echinoderms of Europe
- Prehistoric Asteroidea stubs