Metopaster
Metopaster Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | Asteroidea |
Order: | Valvatida |
Family: | Goniasteridae |
Genus: | †Metopaster Sladen, 1893 |
Metopaster is an extinct genus of sea star that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Early Eocene. Its fossils have been found in Europe.
Sources
[edit]- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 188)
External links
[edit]- Metopaster in the Paleobiology Database