Pentasteria
| Pentasteria Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous | |
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| Pentasteria longispina | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Subphylum: | Eleutherozoa |
| Class: | Asteroidea |
| Order: | Paxillosida |
| Family: | Astropectinidae |
| 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
- Pentasteria boisteli
- Pentasteria elegans
- Pentasteria gataui
- Pentasteria liasica
- Pentasteria longispina
- Pentasteria recta
- Pentasteria tithonica
Sources
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 186)
External links
- Pentasteria in the Paleobiology Database
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