Platanaster

Platanaster
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Asteroidea
Order: †Platyasterida
Family: †Palasteriscidae
Subfamily: †Palasteriscinae
Genus: †

Platanaster ('plate star') is an extinct genus of sea stars.

Taxonomy

†Palasteriscidae

  • †Urasterellinae
    • †Cnemidactis
      • †C. girvanensis
    • †Urasterella
      • †U. asperrimus
  • †Palasteriscinae
    • †Lanthanaster[1]
      • †L. cruciformis
    • †Platanaster
      • †P. ordovicus [2]
    • †Baliactis
      • †B. ordovicus

References

  1. ^ Blake, Daniel B. (November 2007). "Two Late Ordovician asteroids (Echinodermata) with characters suggestive of early ophiuroids". Journal of Paleontology. 81 (6): 1476–1485. Bibcode:2007JPal...81.1476B. doi:10.1666/05-130.1. S2CID 131513655.
  2. ^ Blake, Daniel B. (1994). "Re-Evaluation of the Palasteriscidae Gregory, 1900, and the Early Phylogeny of the Asteroidea (Echinodermata)". Journal of Paleontology. 68 (1): 123–134. Bibcode:1994JPal...68..123B. doi:10.1017/S0022336000025646. ISSN 0022-3360. JSTOR 1306091. S2CID 132568577.


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