†Recurvaster antemammillatus Jagt 2000 (sea star)
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Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Full reference: J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 5: Asteroids. Scripta Geologica 21:377-503
Belongs to Recurvaster according to J. W. M. Jagt 2000
Sister taxa: Recurvaster blackmorei, Recurvaster lorioli, Recurvaster mammillatus, Recurvaster migrans, Recurvaster radiatus, Recurvaster spiniger
Type specimen: Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, holotype NHMM K1424/d, paratypes NHMM 1424/a
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Blom quarry, Berg en Terblijt (middle Meerssen Mb) (Cretaceous of Netherlands)
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