Tropidaster

Tropidaster
Temporal range: Early Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Eleutherozoa
Class: Asteroidea
Order: Velatida
Family: Tropidasteridae
Genus: Tropidaster
Forbes, 1850

Tropidaster is an extinct genus of sea stars that lived in the Early Jurassic. Its fossils have been found in Europe.

Sources

    • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 187)


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