Pentasteria

Pentasteria
Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous
Pentasteria longispina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Eleutherozoa
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.

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