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Extinct genus of starfishes

Protremaster
Temporal range: Early Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
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 stars 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.

References

  1. : A. B. Smith and T.H. Tranter. 1985. Protremaster, a new lower jurassic genus of asteroid from Antarctica. Geological Magazine 122(4):351-359

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Taxon identifiers
Protremaster


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