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.