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Schuchertia stellata

Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Palasterinidae

Taxonomy
Palasterina stellata was named by Billings (1857). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Holotype GSC 1399. It is the type species of Schuchertia.

It was recombined as Trentonaster stellata by Stürtz (1899); it was recombined as Schuchertia stellata by Gregory (1899), Schuchert (1915), Spencer (1922), Owen (1965), Spencer and Wright (1966), Dean Shackleton (2005), Blake et al. (2016) and Blake (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1857Palasterina stellata Billings p. 290
1858Palasterina stellata Billings p. 76 figs. pl. 9 figs. 1a-b
1863Palasterina stellata Wright p. 27 figs. fig. 1b
1876Palasterina stellata Quenstedt p. 74 figs. pl. 92 fig. 34
1899Schuchertia stellata Gregory p. 351
1899Trentonaster stellata Stürtz pp. 217, 224, 225
1915Schuchertia stellata Schuchert pp. 196-198 figs. pl. 32 fig. 2; pl. 33 fig. 1
1922Schuchertia stellata Spencer pp. 211-212 figs. fig. 149; pl. 16 fig. 8
1965Schuchertia stellata Owen p. 563
1966Schuchertia stellata Spencer and Wright p. U65 figs. fig. 59.1
2005Schuchertia stellata Dean Shackleton p. 100 figs. pl. 6 fig. 9, 10
2016Schuchertia stellata Blake et al. p. 172
2018Schuchertia stellata Blake p. 28

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
—Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
orderEuaxosida
familyPalasterinidae
genusSchuchertia
speciesstellata()

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.

†Schuchertia stellata Billings 1857
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitec
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: slow-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: carnivorec
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-28 15:35:10
Modified: 2010-02-09 06:02:08
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992
Collections
No collection or age range data are available