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Catervaparmasteridae (disused)

Catervaparmasteridae

Taxonomy
Catervaparmasteridae was named by Blake (2000). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Goniactinida by Blake (2000); and to Asterozoa by Blake and Guensburg (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2000Catervaparmasteridae Blake p. 90
2015Catervaparmasteridae Blake and Guensburg p. 477

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
RankNameAuthor
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Asterozoa()
familyCatervaparmasteridae
familyCatervaparmasteridae

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.

Fm. †Catervaparmasteridae Blake 2000
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
D. B. Blake 2000Somasteroids lacking adambulacral ossicles or adambulacral virgals at least medially and distally on the arm; marginal robust, flattened, each with one or more well-defined transverse ridges that abut one or more ambulacrals of the arm (or potentially virgals on the disc); virgals, if present, confined to disc region; mouth frame and dorsal skeleton unknown.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitep
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: actively mobilesubp
Life habit: epifaunalsubp
Diet: carnivoresubp
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2009-09-21 12:38:42
Modified: 2009-09-21 14:38:42
Source: subp = subphylum, p = phylum
References: Bambach et al. 2007, Aberhan 1992
Collections
No collection or age range data are available