@ARTICLE{Loba_Michał_Asteroidea_2022, author={Loba, Michał and Radwańska, Urszula}, volume={vol. 72}, number={No 1}, journal={Acta Geologica Polonica}, pages={89-106}, howpublished={online}, year={2022}, publisher={Komitet Nauk Geologicznych PAN}, publisher={Wydział Geologii UW}, abstract={A relatively rich assemblage of starfish is recognised from the talus facies of an Upper Jurassic (lower Kimmeridgian) biohermal, sponge-cyanobacterial build-up from the Wapienno/Bielawy succession exposed in a salt-dome anticline in Kuyavia region, north-central Poland. The paper presents 8 taxa belonging to 4 genera (one new to science): Boxaster gen. nov., Noviaster Valette, 1929, Tylasteria Valette, 1929, Valettaster Lambert, 1914, and 4 families: Astropectinidae Gray, 1840, Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841, Sphaerasteridae Schöndorf, 1906 and Stauranderasteridae Spencer, 1913. Only a very few representatives of some of these taxa have formerly been reported from the Jurassic of Poland. Two species are new: Valettaster planus sp. nov. and Boxaster wapienensis gen. et sp. nov. The Jurassic starfish assemblage recognised from the Wapienno/Bielawy succession is interpreted as an offshore starfish fauna with the admixture of allochtonous shallow-water taxa. The lithology of the source deposits indicates their transport by storm agitation and/or mass movements. This fact strongly influenced the preservation state, all collected plates being disarticulated and most of them abraded.}, type={Article}, title={Asteroidea from the lower Kimmeridgian of Wapienno/Bielawy, Kuyavia region, north-central Poland}, URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/122632/PDF-MASTER/4_Loba%20and%20Radwa%C5%84ska.pdf}, doi={10.24425/agp.2021.137711}, keywords={Asteroidea, taxonomy, Upper Jurassic, Lower Kimmeridgian, Poland}, }