# Pentasteria

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of starfishes}}
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| fossil_range = [Early Jurassic](/source/Early_Jurassic)-[Early Cretaceous](/source/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 =
}}
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'''''Pentasteria''''' is an [extinct](/source/extinct) [genus](/source/genus) of [sea star](/source/sea_star) that lived from the [Early Jurassic](/source/Early_Jurassic) to the [Early Cretaceous](/source/Early_Cretaceous). Its [fossil](/source/fossil)s have been found in [Europe](/source/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](/source/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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