Betelgeusia

Betelgeusia
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic–Cretaceous
B. orientalis - MHNT
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Asteroidea
Order: Paxillosida
Family: Radiasteridae
Genus: †Betelgeusia
Blake & Reid, 1998
Type species
Betelgeusia riedi
Blake & Reid, 1998

Betelgeusia is an extinct genus of sea stars in the family Radiasteridae. It was described by Blake and Reid, in 1998, and existed in what is now the Netherlands, Texas, United States, Morocco, and India, during the Middle Jurassic through the Cretaceous period. It contains the species B. brezinai, B. exposita, B. riedi, and B. orientalis.

References

  1. ^ D. B. Blake & R. Reid (1998). "Some Albian (Cretaceous) asteroids (Echinodermata) from Texas and their paleobiological implications". Journal of Paleontology. 72 (3): 512–532. Bibcode:1998JPal...72..512B. doi:10.1017/S002233600002429X. JSTOR 1306650. S2CID 131483454.
  2. ^ a b Daniel B. Blake and Roland Reboul (2011). "A new asteroid (Echinodermata) faunule from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Morocco". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (6): 1021–1034. doi:10.1666/11-047.1. S2CID 129510034.


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