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Girvanaster sculptus
Taxonomy
Girvanaster sculptus was named by Spencer (1916). Its type specimen is Lectotype BMNH E52539 and is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Girvanaster.
It was recombined as Protopalaeaster sculptus by Owen (1965).
It was recombined as Protopalaeaster sculptus by Owen (1965).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1916 | Girvanaster sculptus Spencer pp. 70-72 figs. fig. 34, 35; pl. 2 fig. 7; pl. 3 fig. 6 |
| 1965 | Protopalaeaster sculptus Owen p. 568 |
| 1966 | Girvanaster sculptus Spencer and Wright p. U50 figs. fig. 47a-b |
| 2005 | Girvanaster sculptus Dean Shackleton p. 100 figs. pl. 6 fig. 3, 4 |
| 2018 | Girvanaster sculptus Blake p. 39 |
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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.
†Girvanaster sculptus Spencer 1916
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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| References: Aberhan 1992, Spencer and Wright 1966, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available