Protremaster Temporal range: Early Jurassic | |
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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
- : A. B. Smith and T.H. Tranter. 1985. Protremaster, a new lower jurassic genus of asteroid from Antarctica. Geological Magazine 122(4):351-359
External links
- in the Paleobiology Database
Taxon identifiers | |
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Protremaster |
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