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Sea stars from Middle Jurassic lagerstätte of La Voulte-sur-Rhône (Ardèche, France)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Loic Villier ,
Sylvain Charbonnier  and
Bernard Riou
Loic Villier
Affiliation:
1Laboratoire de Géologie des Systèmes et Réservoirs Carbonatés, Université de Provence, Case 67, Bâtiment de Sciences Naturelles, 3 Place Victor Hugo, F-13331 Marseille, France,
Sylvain Charbonnier
Affiliation:
2UMR CNRS 5125 PEPS, Université Lyon 1, Campus de la DOUA, Bâtiment Géode, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France; 3Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Département Histoire de la Terre, UMR CNRS 7207, 8 rue Buffon, CP38, 75005 Paris, France
Bernard Riou
Affiliation:
4Musée des Fossiles, Les Acacias, Quartier Rondette, 07250 Rompon, France
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Abstract

The Callovian Lagerstätte of La Voulte-sur-Rhône represents deep (bathyal) environments at the bottom of a submarine rocky slope. Three sea star body fossils partially replaced with pyrite were collected from clay beds. A small, stellate specimen is assigned to Terminaster cancriformis, a species already known from Jurassic clay deposits of Germany, Switzerland and England. the morphology of Terminaster illustrates mostly plesiomorphic features for post-Paleozoic sea stars, and the genus may be considered either as a paedomorphic Zoroasteridae or a stem group Forcipulatacea. Two specimens of a large multiarmed sea star are assigned to Decacuminaster n. gen. solaris n. sp., characterized by a lack of abactinal plates and an axial skeleton typical of the Velatida. the two genera Xandarodaster and Plesiastropecten are close to Decacuminaster and must be transferred to the Velatida. in modern oceans, the association of a multiarmed Velatida and a zoroasterid-like species would be typical of bathyal/abyssal environments, which suggests that these groups explored deep sea environments early in their history.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 83 , Issue 3 , May 2009 , pp. 389 - 398
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