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Holaster cinctus

Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae

Taxonomy
Ananchytes cinctus was named by Morton (1830). Its type specimen is ANSP 1485, a test, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Cardiaster cinctus by Clark and Twitchell (1915); it was recombined as Holaster cinctus by Cooke (1942) and Cooke (1959).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
  • Ananchytes fimbriatus was named by Morton (1830). Its type specimen is ANSP 1485, a test, and it is a 3D body fossil.

    It was recombined as Cardiaster fimbriatus by d'Orbigny (1885); it was synonymized subjectively with Holaster cinctus by Cooke (1959).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1830Ananchytes cinctus Morton p. 200
1830Ananchytes fimbriatus Morton p. 200
1885Cardiaster fimbriatus d'Orbigny p. 146
1915Cardiaster cinctus Clark and Twitchell p. 83
1942Holaster cinctus Cooke p. 52
1959Holaster cinctus Cooke p. 65

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
Carinacea
Irregularia()
Atelostomata
orderHolasteroida
suborderMeridosternata
familyHolasteridae
genusHolasterAgassiz 1836
speciescinctus(Morton 1830)

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.

Holaster cinctus Morton 1830
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Invalid names: Cardiaster fimbriatus Morton 1830 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calciteo
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: semi-infaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2004-02-29 10:02:19
Modified: 2009-12-13 03:44:56
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Thanetian or 58.70000 to 56.00000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0USA (New Jersey) Holaster cinctus (3113)
Late/Upper Paleocene58.7 - 55.8USA (New Jersey) Holaster cinctus (type locality: 155898 155904 155905)