Platanaster ('plate star') is an extinct genus of sea stars.
Platanaster | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | Asteroidea |
Order: | †Platyasterida |
Family: | †Palasteriscidae |
Subfamily: | †Palasteriscinae |
Genus: | †Platanaster |
Taxonomy
edit- †Urasterellinae
- †Cnemidactis
- †C. girvanensis
- †Urasterella
- †U. asperrimus
- †Cnemidactis
- †Palasteriscinae
- †Lanthanaster[1]
- †L. cruciformis
- †Platanaster
- †P. ordovicus [2]
- †Baliactis
- †B. ordovicus
- †Lanthanaster[1]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.