Bundenbach Helianthaster 

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Name: Helianthaster rhenanus
Geologic Age: Devonian
Location: Hunsruck Slate, Bundenbach, Germany
Size: Plate measures approx. 2 3/4" x 4 3/4"
Description:   Helianthaster rhenanus was a RARE SPECIES of starfish that lived during the Devonian Period. This starfish was very unusual. It had 16 appendages; thus it was definitely an anomaly among starfish. The ambulacral groove is well defined by the adambulacral ossicles. However, the marginal plates are underdeveloped.

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