Cambraster

Cambraster
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Edrioasteroidea
Order: Stromatocystitida
Family: Stromatocystitidae
Genus: Cambraster
Jaekel 1923[1]
Type species
Trochocystites cannati[2]
Miquel 1894
Species
  • Cambraster cannati (Miquel 1894)[2]
  • Cambraster elegans Termier & Termier 1979[3]
  • Cambraster tastudorum Jell, Burrett & Banks 1985
  • Cambraster cf. tastudorum[4]

Cambraster is an extinct genus of edrioasteroids with species that existed during the Cambrian.

See also

References

  1. ^ Jaekel, O. (1923). "Zur morphogenie der Asterozoa". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 5 (3): 344–350. doi:10.1007/BF03160383.
  2. ^ a b Zamora, Samuel; Sumrall, Colin D.; Vizcaïno, Daniel (2013). "Morphology and ontogeny of the Cambrian edrioasteroid echinoderm Cambraster cannati from western Gondwana". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 58 (3): 545–559. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0152.
  3. ^ Termier, H.; Termier, G. (1969). "Les Stromatocystitoides et leur descendance. Essai sur l'évolution des premiers Échinodermes". Geobios. 2: 131–145, 147–154, IN1–IN3, 155–157. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(69)80004-5.
  4. ^ Zamora, S.; Liñán, E.; Domínguez Alonso, P.; Gozalo, P.; Gámez Vintaned, J. A. (2007). "A Middle Cambrian edrioasteroid from the Murero biota (NE Spain) with Australian affinities". Annales de Paléontologie. 93 (4): 249–260. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2007.09.003.