Metopaster

Metopaster Temporal 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 sea star that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Early Eocene. Its fossils have been found in Europe.

Sources

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

External links

• Metopaster in the Paleobiology Database

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