Metopaster

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Metopaster
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Eleutherozoa
Class: Asteroidea
Order: Valvatida
Family: Goniasteridae
Genus: Metopaster
Sladen, 1893

Metopaster is an extinct genus of starfish that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Early Eocene. Its fossils have been found in Europe.

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  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 188)

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