Protremaster

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]

Protremaster
Temporal range: Early Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Echinodermata
Subphylum:
Eleutherozoa
Class:
Asteroidea
Order:
Valvatida
Family:
Asterinidae
Genus:
Protremaster

Smith and Tranter 1985
Type species
Protremaster universalis
Smith and Tranter 1985

Sources
  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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