Toxasteridae
Toxasteridae is an extinct family of sea urchins.
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| Fossil of Heteraster oblongus from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Family: | Toxasteridae J. Lambert 1920 |
These slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivores lived during the Cretaceous period, from 145.5 to 61.7 Ma.[1]
Genera
- Adytaster
- Aphelaster
- Douvillaster
- Enallopneustes
- Heteraster
- Isaster
- Isomicraster
- Macraster
- Mokotibaster
- Palmeraster
- Polydesmaster
- Toxaster
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