Biology:Protremaster
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Short description: Extinct genus of starfishes
| Protremaster Temporal range: Early Jurassic
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Class: | Asteroidea
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| Genus: | Protremaster Smith and Tranter 1985
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| Protremaster universalis Smith and Tranter 1985
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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.[1]
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
- [1] in the Paleobiology Database
Wikidata ☰ Q20817941 entry
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