†Dipsacaster africanus Blake and Reboul 2011 (sea star)
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Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Full reference: D. B. Blake and R. Reboul. 2011. A new asteroid (Echinodermata) faunule from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Morocco. Journal of Paleontology 85(6):1021-1034
Belongs to Dipsacaster according to D. B. Blake and R. Reboul 2011
Sister taxon: Dipsacaster jadeti
Type specimen: Holotype HistoryMHNT.PAL2010.2.3A–3G.
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Taba, Tawrirt Oukanakay Region (Cretaceous of Morocco)
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