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Manfredaster senonensis

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Stauranderasteridae

Taxonomy

Pentaceros senonensis was named by Valette (1902) [type is that of the junior synonym pentaceros punctatus Spencer]. It is not extant. Its type specimen is Holotype BNHM E 2561.

It was recombined as Stauranderaster senonensis by Spencer (1913), Valette (1915), Mercier (1935), Mercier (1936), Schulz and Weitschat (1971), Lewis (1993), Helm (1997); it was recombined as Aspidaster senonensis by Breton (1992); it was recombined as Manfredaster senonensis by Villier et al. (2004).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1902	Pentaceros senonensis Valette p. 17 figs. fig. 1-7
1913	Stauranderaster senonensis Spencer p. 134 figs. pl. 13, fig. 14-15
1915	Stauranderaster senonensis Valette pp. 50-54 figs. figs. 18.1-7
1935	Stauranderaster senonensis Mercier pp. 35-36 figs. pl. 2, fig. 4a-c
1936	Stauranderaster senonensis Mercier p. 24
1971	Stauranderaster senonensis Schulz and Weitschat pp. 127-128 figs. pl. 26, fig. 20-22
1992	Aspidaster senonensis Breton p. 399
1993	Stauranderaster senonensis Lewis p. 66
1997	Stauranderaster senonensis Helm pp. 114-115 figs. fig. 21
2004	Manfredaster senonensis Villier et al. p. 40

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
—	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata
subphylum	Eleutherozoa
—	Asterozoa	()

Rank	Name	Author
class	Asteroidea
subclass	Ambuloasteroidea
infraclass	Neoasteroidea	()
superorder	Valvatacea
order	Valvatida
family	Stauranderasteridae
genus	Manfredaster
species	senonensis	()

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.

†Manfredaster senonensis Valette 1902

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Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
M. G. Schulz and W. Weitschat 1971	Primary interradial abactinal plates hemispherical, smooth. Lateral faces steep.

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 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Coniacian to the top of the Maastrichtian or 89.80000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Coniacian	89.8 - 85.7	France	Stauranderaster senonensis (72287)
Late/Upper Coniacian - Early/Lower Santonian	89.8 - 83.6	France	Aspidaster senonensis (59659)
Late/Upper Santonian	85.7 - 83.6	France	Aspidaster senonensis (59677)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Netherlands	Aspidaster senonensis (32162)