Contributed by Andreas Kroh, March 2016
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Distribution | Lower Cretaceous, Europe. |
Type | Absurdaster puezensis Kroh, Lukeneder & Gallemi, 2014, p. 242. Holotype: Naturmuseum Sudtirol STMN PZO 341 (CP172) |
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Classification and/or Status | Irregularia; Stem group Atelostomata; Collyritidae. |
Remarks | One of the few 'disasteroids' with a frontal notch; differs from all of them by the structure of the apical disc, which is twice disjunct (between Oc I/V and OcII/IV, as well as between OcIII and OcII/IV). Kroh, A. Lukeneder, A. & Gallemi, J. (2014). Absurdaster, a new genus of basal atelostomate from the Early Cretaceous of Europe and its phylogenetic position. Cretaceous Research 48: 235-249. |