Terminasteridae

Terminasteridae; Temporal range:
	Fossil of Terminaster cancriformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Asteroidea
Order:	Forcipulatida
Family:	†; Gale, 2011
Genera
	†Alkaidia; †Terminaster;

Terminasteridae is a family of fossil starfish which lived from the Jurassic to Cretaceous periods. It was erected in 2011 as a monotypic group to contain only the type genus Terminaster (which it is named after).^[1] A second genus, Alkaidia, was originally described as a member of the extant family Benthopectinidae, but was transferred to Terminasteridae in 2020.^[2]

References

^ Gale, Andrew Scott (April 2011). "The phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic Asteroidea (Neoasteroidea, Echinodermata)". The Palaeontological Association London Special Papers in Palaeontology. 85 (85): 1–112.
^ Ewin, Timothy A. M.; Gale, Andrew S. (September 2020). "Asteroids (Echinodermata) from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Agadir Basin, west Morocco". Journal of Paleontology. 94 (5): 931–954. doi:10.1017/jpa.2020.20. ISSN 0022-3360.

[1] Gale, Andrew Scott (April 2011). "The phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic Asteroidea (Neoasteroidea, Echinodermata)". The Palaeontological Association London Special Papers in Palaeontology. 85 (85): 1–112.

[2] Ewin, Timothy A. M.; Gale, Andrew S. (September 2020). "Asteroids (Echinodermata) from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Agadir Basin, west Morocco". Journal of Paleontology. 94 (5): 931–954. doi:10.1017/jpa.2020.20. ISSN 0022-3360.

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