Betelgeusia
| Betelgeusia Temporal range: Middle Jurassic–Cretaceous | |
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| Betelgeusia orientalis - MHNT | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Subphylum: | Eleutherozoa |
| Class: | Asteroidea |
| Order: | Paxillosida |
| Family: | Astropectinidae |
| Genus: | Betelgeusia Blake & Reid, 1998 |
| Type species | |
| Betelgeusia riedi Blake & Reid, 1998 | |
Betelgeusia is an extinct genus of sea stars in the family Astropectinidae. It was described by Blake and Reid, in 1998,[1] and existed in what is now the Netherlands, Texas, United States, Morocco, and India, during the Middle Jurassic through the Cretaceous period.[2] It contains the species B. exposita, B. reidi, and B. orientalis.[2]
References
- ↑ D. B. Blake & R. Reid (1998). "Some Albian (Cretaceous) asteroids (Echinodermata) from Texas and their paleobiological implications". Journal of Paleontology 72 (3): 512–532. JSTOR 1306650.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Daniel B. Blake and Roland Reboul (2011). "A new asteroid (Echinodermata) faunule from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Morocco". Journal of Paleontology 85 (6): 1021–1034. doi:10.1666/11-047.1.
External links
- Betelgeusia at the Paleobiology Database