Toxasteridae

Toxasteridae
Temporal range: Cretaceous

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Fossil of Heteraster oblongus from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Superorder: Atelostomata
Order: Spatangoida
Family: Toxasteridae
J. Lambert 1920

Toxasteridae is an extinct family of sea urchins.


These slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivores lived during the Cretaceous period, from 145.5 to 61.7 Ma. [1]

Genera

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References


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