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Crateraster

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Crateraster Spencer
1928Austinaster Adkins p. 266
1966Crateraster Spencer and Wright p. U61
1998Crateraster Blake and Reid p. 515
2002Crateraster Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
subclassAmbuloasteroidea
infraclassNeoasteroidea()
superorderValvatacea
orderValvatida
familyGoniasteridae
genusCrateraster

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.

G. †Crateraster Spencer 1913
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Crateraster debrisi Breton 1992
Crateraster dubusi Breton 1992
Crateraster favosus Spencer 1913
Crateraster fourayae Breton 1992
Crateraster grignonensis Valette 1925
Crateraster lamberti Valette 1925
Crateraster multiplacus Schulz and Weitschat 1981
Crateraster poritoides Desmoulins 1832
Crateraster quinqueloba Goldfuss 1833
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Invalid names: Pentagonaster megalomax Sladen 1891 [synonym]
Crateraster reticulatus Schulz and Weitschat 1981
Crateraster rotundus Schulz and Weitschat 1981
Crateraster texensis Adkins and Winton 1920
Invalid names: Austinaster Adkins 1928 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
W. S. Adkins 1928 (Austinaster)Outline stellate-pentagonal, interradial arc moderatelly deep. Form depressed, disk thin over center, thickened at marginalia. Infero- and superomarginalia set at angle to each other, the inferior ones projecting, reducing gradually in size toward tip of ray. Both marginalia tuberculate tubercules of medium size and somewhat irregularly distributed. Marginalia devoid of ridge, grooves or other irregularities, and margins not depressed. Actinal interradial plates triangular, large. Abactinal plates small, hexagonal.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitef
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinef
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: detritivoref
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterf
Dispersal 2: planktonicf
Created: 2007-10-02 04:01:50
Modified: 2007-10-02 06:05:14
Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum
References: Blake 1990, Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Ypresian or 105.30000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections (50 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6USA (Texas) C. quinqueloba (59870) C. texensis (59869 59873 59875 59878)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5France C. debrisi (59658) C. sp. (59619 59813 59815)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5USA (Texas) C. sp. (59883)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5France C. fourayae (59806 59808) C. quinqueloba (59799)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8Czech Republic C. quinqueloba (58578)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3United Kingdom (England) C. quinqueloba (4071 4072)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3France C. quinqueloba (59620)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Brazil C. sp. (98673)
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3France C. quinqueloba (59589)
Coniacian89.8 - 86.3France C. quinqueloba (59650 59680 72287)
Late/Upper Coniacian - Early/Lower Santonian89.3 - 83.5France C. quinqueloba (59579 59659 59675)
Middle Santonian85.8 - 83.5France C. quinqueloba (59610)
Middle Santonian - Late/Upper Santonian85.8 - 83.5France C. quinqueloba (59652)
Early/Lower Campanian83.5 - 70.6France C. quinqueloba (59584)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Belgium (Liege) C. favosus (32147 32150)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6France C. quinqueloba (59676)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6France (Landes) C. quinqueloba (38807 213851 213857 213874 213916 214098 214099 214102 214157)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0France (Landes) C. quinqueloba (214164 214175)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Belgium (Liege) C. reticulatus (32148 32151)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) C. sp., Teichaster reticulatus (32022)
Danian66.0 - 61.6Denmark Teichaster favosus (89866)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8France C. lamberti (59787 59788 59789) C. poritoides (59790)