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Asterozoa, Starfish(es)

subphylum Asterozoa

• Modern species
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, , phylum Echinodermata

• Distribution
• Cretaceous: Ehime
• Paleogene-Neogene: Nagano
• Oligocene: Nagano
• Miocene: Yamagata, Nagano, Ibaraki, Tokyo, Aichi, Mie, Okayama, Shimane
• Pliocene: Akita
• Quaternary: Hiroshima
• Investigation in progress: Yamagata

• Subtaxa
• Astropecten, genus
• Brisingidae, family
• Ophiuroidea, class, Brittle star