{{Short description|Extinct genus of starfishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous | image = Pentasteria longispina, starfish, Early Late Jurassic, Oxfordian Age, Switzerland - Houston Museum of Natural Science - DSC01811.JPG | image_caption = ''Pentasteria longispina'' | taxon = Pentasteria | authority = Valette, 1929 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = }} {{Commonscat}}
'''''Pentasteria''''' is an extinct genus of sea star that lived from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in Europe.
==Selected species== * ''Pentasteria boisteli'' * ''Pentasteria elegans'' * ''Pentasteria gataui'' * ''Pentasteria liasica'' * ''Pentasteria longispina'' * ''Pentasteria recta'' * ''Pentasteria tithonica''
==References== {{Reflist}} * ''Fossils'' (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 186)
==External links== *[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=31498 ''Pentasteria''] in the Paleobiology Database
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Category:Astropectinidae Category:Prehistoric starfish genera Category:Jurassic echinoderms Category:Cretaceous echinoderms Category:Prehistoric echinoderms of Europe Category:Early Jurassic genus first appearances Category:Early Cretaceous genus extinctions
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