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Platanaster ordovicus
Taxonomy
Platanaster ordovicus was named by Spencer (1919). Its type specimen is Holotype GSM 8238 and is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Platanaster.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1919 | Platanaster ordovicus Spencer pp. 171-176 figs. figs. 114-118, 120, 121; pl. 14 fig. 1-3 |
| 1965 | Platanaster ordovicus Owen p. 559 |
| 1966 | Platanaster ordovicus Spencer and Wright p. U42 figs. figs. 12.1, 41.1a-b, 42.1 |
| 1994 | Platanaster ordovicus Blake pp. 123-134 figs. figs. 1-4 |
| 1999 | Platanaster ordovicus Dean p. 242 figs. fig. 6 |
| 2005 | Platanaster ordovicus Dean Shackleton p. 95 |
| 2018 | Platanaster ordovicus Blake p. 30 |
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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.
†Platanaster ordovicus Spencer 1919
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Aberhan 1992, Blake 1994, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||