Heteraster

Heteraster
Temporal range: Cretaceous [1]
Fossil of Heteraster oblongus from Spain
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Order: Spatangoida
Family: †Toxasteridae
Genus: †Heteraster
Orbigny, 1855

Heteraster is an extinct genus of sea urchins belonging to the family Toxasteridae.

These slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivores lived during the Cretaceous period. Fossils of this family have been found in the sediments of Algeria, Egypt, France, Hungary, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Switzerland and Yemen.[1]

Species

  • Heteraster oblongus Brongniart, 1821 [1]
  • Heteraster delgadoi (Loriol, 1888)
  • Heteraster renevieri (Desor, 1858).
  • Heteraster transiens Devries (1956)
  • Heteraster tissoti Coquand
  • Heteraster peroni Ficheur
  • Heteraster castellon

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References

  1. ^ a b c The Paleobiology Database
  2. ^ Natural History Museum


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