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Toxasteridae

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Superorder
  
Atelostomata

Rank
  
Family

Kingdom
  
Animalia

Phylum
  
Echinodermata

Order
  
Spatangoida

Class
  
Echinoidea

Toxasteridae

Similar
  
Hemiasteridae, Spatangoida, Holasteridae, Saleniidae, Heteraster

Toxasteridae is an extinct family of sea urchins.


These slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivores lived during the Cretaceous period, from 145.5 to 61.7 Ma.

Genera

  • Adytaster
  • Aphelaster
  • Douvillaster
  • Enallopneustes
  • Heteraster
  • Isaster
  • Isomicraster
  • Macraster
  • Mokotibaster
  • Palmeraster
  • Polydesmaster
  • Toxaster
  • References

    Toxasteridae Wikipedia