Protremaster

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

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.

Sources

    • Fossils


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