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Furcaster
Sign in to saveFurcaster is an extinct genus of brittle stars. It lived from the Silurian to Devonian periods. Furcaster palaeozoicus is known from the Hunsrück Slate lagerstätte.
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Vinony's link graph records 7 inbound references to Furcaster, and connects out to Animalia, Wikidata and taxonomy.
It sits within the topics Oegophiurida and Prehistoric Asterozoa genera.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 66
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Furcasteridae
- Collections
- CMNH, YPM, FMNH, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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Furcaster is an extinct genus of brittle stars. It lived from the Silurian to Devonian periods. Furcaster palaeozoicus is known from the Hunsrück Slate lagerstätte.
thumb|300 px|left|Furcaster decheni ==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Furcaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.