Asteriacites isp.

Description: Asteriacites is a horizontal, five-pointed, star-shaped burrow. Asteriacites is interpreted as a resting trace made by an asterozoan, either a stelleroid or ophiuroid.

Age: Jurassic

Formation: Posidonia Shale

Location: Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Collector: Lowentor Musueum, Stuttgart, Germany

Photographer: A. J. Martin

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