Marocaster

Marocaster; Temporal range: 130–125.45 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Marocaster coronatus – Holotype- Muséum de Toulouse
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Asteroidea
Order:	Valvatida
Family:	Goniasteridae
Genus:	†Marocaster; Blake & Reboul, 2011
Species:	†M. coronatus
Binomial name
	†Marocaster coronatus; Blake & Reboul, 2011

Marocaster is an extinct genus of sea stars in the family Goniasteridae. It existed in what is now Morocco during the early Cretaceous period. It was described by Daniel B. Blake and Roland Reboul in 2011, and the type species (and only species) is Marocaster coronatus.^[1]

References

^ Daniel B. Blake & Roland Reboul (2011). "A new asteroid (Echinodermata) faunule from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Morocco". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (6): 1021–1034. doi:10.1666/11-047.1. S2CID 129510034.

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[Blake_and_Reboul,_2011-1] Daniel B. Blake & Roland Reboul (2011). "A new asteroid (Echinodermata) faunule from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Morocco". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (6): 1021–1034. doi:10.1666/11-047.1. S2CID 129510034.

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