Cantabrigiaster

Cantabrigiaster is an extinct genus of asterozoan echinoderms from the order Somasteroidea known from the Fezouata Formation of Morocco.[1] The type species C. fezouataensis was initially described in a 2017 preprint in bioRxiv,[2] but the paper was not published until 2021 in Biology Letters after being peer-reviewed.[3]

Cantabrigiaster
Temporal range: Early Ordovician,
~480 Ma
↓
Holotype
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Echinodermata
Subphylum:
Asterozoa
Order:
†Somasteroidea
Genus:
†Cantabrigiaster

Hunter & Ortega-Hernández, 2021
Binomial name
†Cantabrigiaster fezouataensis
Hunter & Ortega-Hernández, 2021

References
  1. "New starfish-like fossil reveals evolution in action". phys.org. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  2. Hunter, Aaron; Ortega-Hernández, Javier (9 November 2017). "A primitive starfish ancestor from the Early Ordovician of Morocco reveals the origin of crown group Echinodermata". bioRxiv. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  3. Hunter, Aaron (20 January 2021). "A new somasteroid from the Fezouata Lagerstätte in Morocco and the Early Ordovician origin of Asterozoa". Biology Letters. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2020.0809.
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