Terminasteridae
Extinct family of starfish
| Terminasteridae Temporal range: Callovian–Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Fossil of Terminaster cancriformis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Asteroidea |
| Order: | Forcipulatida |
| Family: | †Terminasteridae Gale, 2011 |
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Terminasteridae is a family of fossil starfish which lived from the Jurassic to Cretaceous periods. It was erected in 2011 as a monotypic group to contain only the type genus Terminaster (which it is named after).[1] A second genus, Alkaidia, was originally described as a member of the extant family Benthopectinidae, but was transferred to Terminasteridae in 2020.[2]
References
- ^ Gale, Andrew Scott (April 2011). "The phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic Asteroidea (Neoasteroidea, Echinodermata)". The Palaeontological Association London Special Papers in Palaeontology. 85 (85): 1–112.
- ^ Ewin, Timothy A. M.; Gale, Andrew S. (September 2020). "Asteroids (Echinodermata) from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Agadir Basin, west Morocco". Journal of Paleontology. 94 (5): 931–954. doi:10.1017/jpa.2020.20. ISSN 0022-3360.
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