Kingdom Animalia Class Asteroidea Family Astropectinidae Phylum Echinodermata | Subphylum Eleutherozoa Order Paxillosida Genus † Riedaster Rank Species | |
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Similar Notomyotida, Velatida, Labidiaster annulatus, Brisingida, Paxillosida | ||
Riedaster reicheli is an extinct species of starfish in the family Astropectinidae. Riedaster reicheli was first described by Kutscher and Röper in 1999 from a three-dimensional body fossil. Its type locality is Papierschifer, which is in a shallow subtidal mudstone in the Papierschiefer Formation in the Ried district of Germany. It is the type species of the genus Riedaster and dates back to the Late Jurassic.
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