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Rare, .9" Cretaceous Starfish (Marocaster) - Morocco
This is a rare, fossil Marocaster coronatus (Blake and Reboul 2011) starfish from Taba, Morocco. It's Early Cretaceous in age, Barremian Stage. It's .9" wide and located on a solid, 3.2x3" piece of limestone. I recently acquired a small number of several types of starfish from this locality, and I have not previously seen them offered for sale.
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
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
SPECIES
Marocaster coronatus (Blake and Reboul 2011)
LOCATION
Taba, Tawrirt Oukanakay Region, Morocco
SIZE
Starfish .9" wide, Matrix 3.2x3"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#46480
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