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Pustulosida (disused)
Taxonomy
Pustulosa was named by Spencer (1951).
It was corrected as Pustulosina by Spencer and Wright (1966); it was reranked as the order Pustulosida by Blake (1989), Webster et al. (1999) and Sepkoski (2002); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Asteroidea by Blake (2018).
It was assigned to Phanerozonida by Spencer (1951) and Owen (1965); to Valvatida by Spencer and Wright (1966); and to Asteroidea by Blake (1989), Webster et al. (1999) and Sepkoski (2002).
It was corrected as Pustulosina by Spencer and Wright (1966); it was reranked as the order Pustulosida by Blake (1989), Webster et al. (1999) and Sepkoski (2002); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Asteroidea by Blake (2018).
It was assigned to Phanerozonida by Spencer (1951) and Owen (1965); to Valvatida by Spencer and Wright (1966); and to Asteroidea by Blake (1989), Webster et al. (1999) and Sepkoski (2002).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1951 | Pustulosa Spencer p. 122 |
| 1965 | Pustulosa Owen p. 567 |
| 1966 | Pustulosina Spencer and Wright p. U48 |
| 1989 | Pustulosida Blake p. 212 |
| 1999 | Pustulosida Webster et al. p. 476 |
| 2002 | Pustulosida Sepkoski |
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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.
Or. †Pustulosida Spencer 1951
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Invalid names: Bimarginalina Kesling 1969 [empty], Palaeasteraceae Miller 1889 [empty]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. K. Spencer 1951 | With undifferentiated spines placed on pustules | |
| W. K. Spencer and C. W. Wright 1966 | Margin with many small undifferentiated spines elavated on small tubercles (pustules); superomarginal generally within frame of inferomarginals and loosely connected. Pedicellariae unknown. |
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available