Protremaster
| Protremaster Temporal range: Early Jurassic | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Subphylum: | Eleutherozoa |
| Class: | Asteroidea |
| Order: | Valvatida |
| Family: | Asterinidae |
| Genus: | Protremaster Smith and Tranter 1985 |
| Type species | |
| Protremaster universalis Smith and Tranter 1985 | |
Protremaster is an extinct genus of sea star that lived in the Early Jurassic (Age range: 196.5 to 189.6 Ma). Its fossils have been found in the Lully Foothills Formation of Antarctica.
Sources
- Fossils
External links
- in the Paleobiology Database
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