The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, July 2011

Protenaster antiaustralis (Tate, 1885)

[Linthia antiaustralis Tate, 1885, p. 4.]

Distribution Early Miocene, southern Australia.
Classification and/or Status A species of Protenaster.
Remarks Tate, R. 1885. Miscellaneous contributions to the palaeontology of the older rocks of Australia. Southern Science Record 1, 1-5.

McNamaea, K. J. 1985. Taxonomy and evolution of the Cainozoic spatangoid echinoid Protenaster. Palaeontology 28, 311-330.