| Riedaster reicheli | |
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| A fossil of Riedaster reicheli | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Asteroidea |
| Subclass: | Eleutherozoa |
| Order: | Paxillosida |
| Family: | Astropectinidae |
| Genus: | †Riedaster |
| Species: | †R. reicheli |
| Binomial name | |
| †Riedaster reicheli Kutscher & Röper, 1999 | |
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.