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340 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM A MONASTKRID STARFISH FROM THE PERMIAN OF TIMOR. Memoirs ofthe QueenslandMuseum 43(1): 340. 1999:- Among a large collection of Permian fossils madeby BradMacurdafromthe Indonesian islandofTimor and deposited in the Museum oi^ Paleontology at the University of Michigan is a fragment (2 amis) ofa small starfish, the firstrecord ofthe group fromthat island which has yielded the world's most diverse Permian echinoderm fauna. The locality label reads *No. 51702. 1 specimen. Permian. Tonino I. Timor". This locality refers almost certainly tothe known Permian locality Tonino ( Toeninoe ofMacurda. 1983) Noil (=stream) l-2km SE ofBasleo, SE Timor. OrderPUSTTLOSIDA Spencer. 1931 SuborderMONOMARGINALINA Kesling, 1969 Family MONASTERIDAE Schuchert. 1915 Genusnov. (Fig- 1) DESCRIPIION. Anns8mmlong.4mmwideproximalfyand 2mmdeep, upturnedstronglyatdistal tip. Dorsallyallplates strongly convex to bulbous; median column of radials or carinals of 4 plates, with distal one greatly inflated and terminating arm; inferomarginal columns enclosing arms laterally and visible in both dorsal and ventral views, each column of 3 convex plates; with 3 interradial plates not inflated,withsmallaxilvisibledorsallyandventrally. Ventral surface mainly 2 columns of large adambulacrals; adambulaerals short and wide, becoming narrower distally. atmrabnuslvaecrrsaellsy. cMoonuvtehx,frianmecodnitsaacrtticaulloatnegd,axuinsclesaor.concealing FIvGi.ew.1.BM,ovneansttraelrivdiaewe.gen. nov. UMMP51702. '7.5. A. dorsal REMARKS. Following Kesling's (1969) review, this specimen fitstheconceptofthe Monasteridae because it has on it. 'Hie occurrence of monasterids in Timor further sohfosrttrownigdedoarsdaalmbcualraincarlaslscovnetnitgruaolulsywaintdhdtohresailnlfyertohmearcgoilnuamlns sWtersetnegrtnhenAsusttrhaelifaausnoa1evsiidmielnatriatimeosnbgetcrwieneonidsthaatndisMlaasndtoaindsd tAhuasttreanlcilaos(eKestlhienga.rm1s96l9at)eraalnldy.STouhtehfWaemisltyAifsrikcnaow(Lnanfero&m (Webster&Jell, 1992). Frakes, 1970) but all known Australian species are Literaturecited representedbyspecimens verymuchlarger(atleast 5 times) KESLING.R.V.1969.ThreePermianstarfishfromWesternAustralia tthhaatnotfhaisjuTviemniolree.seItiss,pethceirmeefonres,odiitfsfimcoulrtpthoomlaogkyemiseapnrionbgafbully aMfinrcdohmtihgetiahrneb2eM2a;ursi3ne6g1u-om3n76ro.efviPsailoenoonftotlhoegAys,teartoitdheea UCnoinvterrisbiuttyionosf comparisons with confidence and makes any formal LANE,N.G.&FRAKESJ A 1970 APermianstarfishfromSouth toaf.txhoenonmeicwdsecpiesciiomnesniniasdvtihseabelxet.reTmheelmyolsatrgdeisttienrcmtiinvaelferaatduirael MACURWDesAt,AfDr.iBca..1J9o8u3r.nalSyosftePmaalteiocnstoolfogtyhe44f:is1si1c3u5l-a1te13B6i.astoidea platewhichishighlysuggestiveofanewgenus. Itisdifficult Papers inPaleontology fromtheMuseum ofPaleontology at tgoroiwmtahgainndenosnucehofathdeikstnionwctnivsepecfieeastuorfethdeisfaapmpileyarhianvgeswuicthh WEBSTtEhRe,UniCvxeDr.sit&yoJfELMLi.chPigAan12929:2.1-2P9e1rmian echinoderms from anarmtermination. However, withonly2amisofajuvenile 3W1e1s-t3e7r3n Australia. Memoirs oftheQueensland Museum 32 aasndLannoedi&scFdreatkaielss(a1v9a7i0l)a.bluenIafbilnedtmoysnealmfeinatnheewsatmaexopnosbiatsieodn BPretiesrbaAn.eJ4e1ll0,1.QAuuesetnrsalliaan:drMuMsaeuym,199P9..O. Box 3300, South