Protremaster
Protremaster is an extinct genus of sea stars that lived in the Early Jurassic (age range: 196.5 to 189.6 Ma). Its fossils have been found in the Lully Foothills Formation of Antarctica.[1]
| Protremaster Temporal range: Early Jurassic | |
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| Genus: | Protremaster Smith and Tranter 1985 |
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| Protremaster universalis Smith and Tranter 1985 | |
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- A. B. Smith and T.H. Tranter. 1985. Protremaster, a new lower jurassic genus of asteroid from Antarctica. Geological Magazine 122(4):351-359
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