†Cretasterias reticulatus Gale and Villier 2013 (sea star)
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Asteroidea - Forcipulatida - Asteriidae
Full reference: A. Gale and L. Villier. 2013. Mass mortality of an asteriid starfish (Forcipulatida, Asteroidea, Echinodermata) from the Late Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Morocco. Palaeontology 56(3):577-588
Belongs to Cretasterias according to A. Gale and L. Villier 2013
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Holotype OUM KX 15734, paratypes NHM EE 13838, MHNH 9166, MHNH 9197. Its type locality is Bakrit, which is in a Maastrichtian paralic grainstone in Morocco.
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Bakrit
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