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Testudinaster Hess 1983
Creators
- 1. School of the Environment, Geography and Geological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO 1 3 QL UK; & Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
Description
Genus Testudinaster Hess, 1983
Type species. Testudinaster pereginus Hess, 1983, by original designation.
Diagnosis. Sphaerasterida in which the abactinal surface is made up of numerous, rather small polygonal ossicles. Actinal ossicles small, very numerous, rounded or rhombic in outline, and very thick.
Notes
Published as part of Gale, Andrew Scott, 2021, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the ' football stars' (Asteroidea, Sphaerasteridae), pp. 691-741 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19 (10) on page 721, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2021.1960911, http://zenodo.org/record/10949919
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sphaerasteridae
- Genus
- Testudinaster
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Valvatida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Hess
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Testudinaster Hess, 1983 sec. Gale, 2021
References
- Hess, H. 1983. Eine neuer Seestern (Testudinaster peregrinus n. g. n. sp.) aus dem mittleren Dogger des Aargauer Juras. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae, 76, 919 - 925.