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Protremaster, a new Lower Jurassic genus of asteroid from Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Andrew B. Smith  and
T. H. Tranter
Andrew B. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K.
T. H. Tranter
Affiliation:
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environmental Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, U.K.
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Abstract

A new and well-preserved.asteroid, Protremaster uniserialis (gen. & sp.nov.) is described from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) of Antarctica. This find extends the fossil record of the family Asterinidae and the subfamily Tremasterinae considerably and lends support to the idea that asteroids underwent an important morphological diversification in the late Triassic-early Jurassic.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 122 , Issue 4 , July 1985 , pp. 351 - 359
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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