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Furcasteridae
Taxonomy
Furcasteridae was named by Stürtz (1899). It is not extant. Its type is Furcaster.
It was synonymized subjectively with Lapworthuridae by Schuchert (1915).
It was assigned to Ophiuroidea by Spencer (1925); to Zeugophiuricae by Lehmann (1957), Owen (1965); and to Zeugophiurina by Spencer and Wright (1966), Haude and Thomas (1983), Boczarowski (2001).
It was synonymized subjectively with Lapworthuridae by Schuchert (1915).
It was assigned to Ophiuroidea by Spencer (1925); to Zeugophiuricae by Lehmann (1957), Owen (1965); and to Zeugophiurina by Spencer and Wright (1966), Haude and Thomas (1983), Boczarowski (2001).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1899 | Furcasteridae Stürtz |
| 1925 | Furcasteridae Spencer p. 312 |
| 1957 | Furcasteridae Lehmann pp. 62-63 |
| 1965 | Furcasteridae Owen p. 556 |
| 1966 | Furcasteridae Spencer and Wright p. U88 |
| 1983 | Furcasteridae Haude and Thomas p. 128 |
| 2001 | Furcasteridae Boczarowski p. 29 |
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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.
Fm. †Furcasteridae Stürtz 1899
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G. †Tremataster Worthen and Miller 1883
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†Tremataster decheni Dewalque 1880
†Tremataster difficilis Worthen and Miller 1883
Diagnosis
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Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992 | |||||
Collections
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