[Last updated 20 Jan 2024]

Phylum: Echinodermata

Class: Asteroidea - Asteroids
(starfish)

Crateraster texensis
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(Pentagonaster texensis)
Strata:  Pawpaw Shale
Period:  Cretaceous  (c. 97-98 mya)
Loc: Tarrant Co., TX.  Dec. 2010. Wes K.
Altairia wintoni

(Comptonia wintoni)
Strata:  Pawpaw Shale
Period
:  Cretaceous  (c. 97-98 mya)
Location: Tarrant Co., TX.  1920.
Adkins collection, T.C.U.
Crateraster mccarteri

(Austinaster mccarteri)
Strata: Austin Chalk
Period:  Cretaceous  
Location: Travis Co., TX.  1930s.
More info.
Denebia americana
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(Pentaceros americanus)
Strata:  Pawpaw Shale
Period:  Cretaceous  (c. 97-98 mya)
Location: Tarrant Co., TX.  1920.
Adkins collection, T.C.U.
Crateraster texensis ?

Strata:  Pawpaw Shale
Period:  Cretaceous  (c. 97-98 mya)
Location: Tarrant Co., TX.  April 2014.
Betelgeusia reidi

Strata:  Pawpaw Shale
Period:  Cretaceous  (c. 97-98 mya)
Location: Tarrant Co., TX.  March 13, 2007.
Found by Lance H.
Betelgeusia reidi?

Strata:  Del Rio Clay (= Grayson)
Period:  Cretaceous  (c. 96 mya)
Location: McLennan co., Tx?
Picture from Ebay saved by Frank H.

Class: Ophiuroidea - Ophiuroids
(brittle stars)

Brittle star arm

Strata:  Pawpaw Shale
Period:  Cretaceous  (c. 97-98 mya)
Location: Tarrant Co., TX.  Sep. 15, 2016.
Brittle star arm?

Strata:  Grayson Shale
Period:  Cretaceous  (c. 97 mya)
Location: Tarrant Co., TX. 
 March 10, 2019.
Ophiura sp. (?) brittle star

Strata:  Pawpaw Shale
Period:  Cretaceous  (c. 97-98 mya)
Location: Tarrant Co., TX.  Kevin Knight
 
Ophiodoris holterhoffi  (proximal arm fragment)
[image from publication below] 

Strata:  Glen Rose Fm.
Period:  Cretaceous  
Location: Texas.  2013.  Found by Frank H.
 

References:

" Shallow-water brittle-star (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) assemblages from the Aptian (Early Cretaceous) of the North Atlantic: first insights into bathymetric distribution patterns "
By: Ben Thuy, Andrew S. Gale, Sabine Stohr, Frank Wiese 2013