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Hudsonaster ordovicus
Taxonomy
Belaster ordovicus was named by Spencer (1916). Its type specimen is Holotype BMNH E52416a,b and is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Belaster.
It was recombined as Protopalaeaster ordovicus by Spencer (1950) and Owen (1965); it was recombined as Hudsonaster ordovicus by Dean Shackleton (2005).
It was recombined as Protopalaeaster ordovicus by Spencer (1950) and Owen (1965); it was recombined as Hudsonaster ordovicus by Dean Shackleton (2005).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1916 | Belaster ordovicus Spencer pp. 73-75 figs. fig. 36; pl. 2 fig. 6; pl. 3 fig. 3, 4 |
| 1950 | Protopalaeaster ordovicus Spencer p. 405 |
| 1965 | Protopalaeaster ordovicus Owen p. 568 |
| 2005 | Hudsonaster ordovicus Dean Shackleton pp. 101-102 figs. fig. 12 |
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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.
†Hudsonaster ordovicus Spencer 1916
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Collections
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