Tropidaster

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Tropidaster
Fossil 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 starfish that lived in the Early Jurassic. Its fossils have been found in Europe.

[edit] Sources

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

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