Biology:Cantabrigiaster
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Short description: Extinct genus of echinoderms
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| Genus: | †Cantabrigiaster Hunter & Ortega-Hernández, 2021
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| †Cantabrigiaster fezouataensis Hunter & Ortega-Hernández, 2021
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Cantabrigiaster is an extinct genus of asterozoan echinoderms from the order Somasteroidea known from the Fezouata Formation of Morocco.[1] The type species C. fezouataensis was initially described in a 2017 preprint in bioRxiv,[2] but the paper was not published until 2021 in Biology Letters after being peer-reviewed.[3] It is the oldest starfish-like fossil and would have been one of the first relatively modern animals.[4] Like other somasteroids, Cantabrigiaster is thought to be closely related to the ancestors of all modern Asterozoa (starfish and brittlestars).[3]
References
- ↑ "New starfish-like fossil reveals evolution in action". https://phys.org/news/2021-01-starfish-like-fossil-reveals-evolution-action.html.
- ↑ Hunter, Aaron; Ortega-Hernández, Javier (9 November 2017). "A primitive starfish ancestor from the Early Ordovician of Morocco reveals the origin of crown group Echinodermata". https://doi.org/10.1101/216101.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hunter, Aaron (20 January 2021). "A new somasteroid from the Fezouata Lagerstätte in Morocco and the Early Ordovician origin of Asterozoa". Biology Letters. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2020.0809.
- ↑ "New starfish-like fossil reveals evolution in action" (in en). https://phys.org/news/2021-01-starfish-like-fossil-reveals-evolution-action.html.
Wikidata ☰ Q105007864 entry
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