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Mesopalaeaster parviusculus

Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Mesopalaeasteridae

Taxonomy
Palaeaster parviusculus was named by Billings (1860). Its type specimen is at the Redpath Museum of McGill University, Canada and is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Mesopalaeaster parviusculus by Schuchert (1915).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. lancolatus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1860Palaeaster parviusculus Billings p. 69 figs. text-fig.
1868Palaeaster parviusculus Dawson p. 594 figs. fig. 197
1913Palaeaster parviusculus Hudson figs. pl. 1-4
1915Mesopalaeaster parviusculus Schuchert pp. 87-88 figs. pl. 9 fig. 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
—Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
orderEuaxosida
familyMesopalaeasteridae
genusMesopalaeaster
speciesparviusculus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Mesopalaeaster parviusculus Billings 1860
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitec
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: slow-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-28 15:35:10
Modified: 2010-02-09 06:02:08
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992
Collections
No collection or age range data are available