| Furcaster Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
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| Furcaster palaeozoicus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Ophiuroidea |
| Order: | Oegophiurida |
| Family: | †Protasteridae |
| Genus: | †Furcaster Stürtz, 1886 |
Furcaster is an extinct genus of brittle stars. It lived from the Silurian to Devonian periods. Furcaster palaeozoicus is known from the Hunsrück Slate lagerstätte.[1]
Furcaster decheni
References
- ↑ Stürtz, B. (1886). "Über paläozoische Sesterne". Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie. 2: 142–154.
External links
- "Furcaster". Fossilworks. Retrieved 2020-06-22 from the Paleobiology Database.
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