Pentasteria

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Pentasteria
Fossil range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Eleutherozoa
Class: Asteroidea
Order: Paxillosida
Family: Astropectinidae
Genus: Pentasteria
Valette, 1929

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

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  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 186)

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