The Asterozoa are a subphylum in the phylum Echinodermata. Characteristics include a star-shaped body and radially divergent axes of symmetry. The subphylum includes the class Asteroidea (the starfish), the class Ophiuroidea (the brittle stars and basket stars), and the extinct order Somasteroidea.
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The Asterozoa are a subphylum in the phylum Echinodermata. Characteristics include a star-shaped body and radially divergent axes of symmetry. The subphylum...
the body is arranged in five parts around a central axis. Within the Asterozoa, there can be a few exceptions from the rule. Most starfish in the genus...
The following is a list of the classes in each phylum of the kingdom Animalia. There are 107 classes of animals in 33 phyla in this list. However, different...
by a mesh of collagen fibres. Starfish are included in the subphylum Asterozoa, the characteristics of which include a flattened, star-shaped body as...
The Sachrang Formation or "Posidonienschiefer" Formation (Whose Vulgar name is "Posidonia Shale") is a geological formation of southwestern Germany, northern...
(2014). "Phylogenomic analysis of echinoderm class relationships supports Asterozoa". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281 (1786):...
considered valid and it has since been absorbed into Somasteroidea and Asterozoa. W. K. Spencer. (1951). Early Palaeozoic starfish. Philosophical Transactions...
latter forming the clade Cryptosyringida together with the Echinozoa. The "Asterozoa" hypothesis, on the other hand, implies that the "sea-star" arms of starfish...
Villebrunaster is an extinct genus of starfish-like animal belonging to Asterozoa that lived around 480 million years ago during Early Ordovician Period...
of Zoology. Retrieved 26 August 2012. Sweet, Elizabeth (2005-11-22). "Asterozoa: Fossil groups: SciComms 05-06: Earth Sciences". University of Bristol...
The largest prehistoric animals include both vertebrate and invertebrate species. Many of them are described below, along with their typical range of size...
(ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part U. Echinodermata. 3. Asterozoa-Echinozoa. Kansas : Geological Society of America and University of Kansas...
Quiroz-Barroso, S. A.; Martín-Medrano, L. (2023). "Middle-Upper Permian stenuroid (Asterozoa, Stenuroidea) from Las Delicias Formation, Coahuila, Mexico, relict youngest...
The list of echinoderms of South Africa is a list of species that form a part of the echinoderm (Phylum Echinodermata) fauna of South Africa, and includes...
eu. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2010-07-30. "Asterozoa: Fossil groups: SciComms 05-06: Earth Sciences". Palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk...
Furcaster is an extinct genus of brittle stars. It lived from the Silurian to Devonian periods. Furcaster palaeozoicus is known from the Hunsrück Slate...
B.; Hotchkiss, Frederick H. C. (2022-08-01). "Origin of the subphylum Asterozoa and redescription of a Moroccan Ordovician somasteroid". Geobios. 72–73:...
See Echinozoa above Order Clypeasteroida Order Camarodonta Subphylum Asterozoa Class Asteroidea (sea stars/starfish) Class Ophiuroidea Hemichordates...
prehistoric echinoderm genera List of edrioasteroids Zur morphogenie der Asterozoa. O Jaekel, Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 1923 Morphology and ontogeny...
recorded during the Cortez 1, 2 and 3 cruises undertaken to research Asterozoa in these waters in 1982 and 1985. In 1977, following reports of a similar...
Blake; Thomas E. Guensburg; Bertrand Lefebvre (2016). "New Early Paleozoic Asterozoa (Echinodermata) from the Armorican Massif, France, and the Western United...
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