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Somasteroida

      A class of echinoderms comprising "sea stars"-like animals of generalized structure, the jaws often only partly developed, and the skeletal elements of the arm arranged in a double series of transverse rows termed metapinnules. Their evolutionary history is short - they occur since Lower to the Middle Ordovician. Source: Mergl, 2002 http://www.kbi.zcu.cz/veda/paleontologie/zoopaleontologie/ostnokozci/index.php
Somasteroida
Img. 168: Basic morphology of Somasteroida

Archegonaster pentagonus Spencer, 1951

Inv. no.p4944
TaxonomyKmen: Echinodermata / Třída: Somasteroida / Rod: Archegonaster / Druh: pentagonus
Description
Lithostratigraphyšárecké souvrství
Chronostratigraphypaleozoikum - ordovik - llanvirn - llanvirn

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Archegonaster pentagonus
Archegonaster pentagonus Spencer, 1951

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