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Homostelea

fossil echinoderm class
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  • starfishes
    echinoderm
    / Annotated classification

    †Class Homostelea Middle Cambrian about 540,000,000 years ago; no feeding arm, but with stem of essentially 2 series of plates. †Class Homoiostelea Upper Cambrian to Lower Devonian about 400,000,000–510,000,000 years ago; with a feeding arm and a complex stem composed in part of more than 2…

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    †Class Homostelea Middle Cambrian about 540,000,000 years ago; no feeding arm, but with stem of essentially 2 series of plates. †Class Homoiostelea Upper Cambrian to Lower Devonian about 400,000,000–510,000,000 years ago; with a feeding arm and a complex stem composed in part of more than 2…

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