Protremaster
| Protremaster Temporal range: Early Jurassic | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| 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.[1]
References
[edit]- ↑
- 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
[edit]- in the Paleobiology Database
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