Tropidaster
Appearance
Tropidaster Temporal range: Early Jurassic
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | Asteroidea |
Order: | Velatida |
Family: | †Tropidasteridae Wright, 1880 |
Genus: | †Tropidaster Forbes, 1850 |
Tropidaster is an extinct genus of sea stars that lived in the Early Jurassic. It is the only genus in the family Tropidasteridae.[1] Its fossils have been found in Europe.
References
[edit]- ^ Mah, C.L. (2023). Mah CL (ed.). "Tropidasteridae Wright, 1880". World Asteroidea database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 187)
External links
[edit]- Tropidaster in the Paleobiology Database