Pentasteria
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| Pentasteria Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous
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| File:Pentasteria longispina, starfish, Early Late Jurassic, Oxfordian Age, Switzerland - Houston Museum of Natural Science - DSC01811.JPG | |
| Pentasteria longispina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| 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
[edit | edit source]- Pentasteria boisteli
- Pentasteria elegans
- Pentasteria gataui
- Pentasteria liasica
- Pentasteria longispina
- Pentasteria recta
- Pentasteria tithonica
References
[edit | edit source]- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 186)
External links
[edit | edit source]- Pentasteria in the Paleobiology Database
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