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Thoralaster spiculiformis
Taxonomy
Thoralaster spiculiformis was named by Dean Shackleton (2005). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Holotype FSL 168 697, paratype FSL 1879 564. Its type locality is Layer F, Saint-Chinian, Montagne Noire, which is in a Tremadocian deep subtidal shelf claystone/siltstone in the Saint-Chinian Formation of France.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2005 | Thoralaster spiculiformis Dean Shackleton p. 68 |
| 2015 | Thoralaster spiculiformis Blake and Guensburg p. 472 |
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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.
†Thoralaster spiculiformis Dean Shackleton 2005
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. Dean Shackleton 2005 | Same as for the genus, by monotypy |
Measurements
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| References: Spencer and Wright 1966, Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992 | |||||
Age range: Tremadocian or 486.85000 to 477.10000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tremadocian | France (Languedoc-Roussillon) | Thoralaster spiculiformis (type locality: 101705) |