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Metopaster
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Early EoceneScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Class: Asteroidea Order: Valvatida Family: Goniasteridae Genus: Metopaster
Sladen, 1893Metopaster 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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