Toxasteridae

Toxasteridae
Temporal range: Cretaceous [1]
Fossil of Heteraster oblongus from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Order: Spatangoida
Family: †Toxasteridae
J. Lambert, 1920

Toxasteridae is an extinct family of sea urchins.

These slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivores lived during the Cretaceous period, from 145.5 to 61.7 Ma.[1]

Genera

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References

  1. ^ a b c The Paleobiology Database


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