Pentasteria

Extinct genus of starfishes

Pentasteria Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous
Pentasteria longispina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Asteroidea
Order:	Paxillosida
Family:	Astropectinidae
Genus:	†Pentasteria Valette, 1929

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Pentasteria is an extinct genus of sea star that lived from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in Europe.

Selected species

• Pentasteria boisteli
• Pentasteria elegans
• Pentasteria gataui
• Pentasteria liasica
• Pentasteria longispina
• Pentasteria recta
• Pentasteria tithonica

References

• Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 186)

External links

• Pentasteria in the Paleobiology Database