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Petrasteridae (disused)
Taxonomy
Petrasteridae was named by Spencer (1951). It is not extant. Its type is Petraster.
It was assigned to Pustulosa by Spencer (1951) and Owen (1965); to Hemizonina by Spencer and Wright (1966); to Pustulosida by Blake (1989); and to Asteroidea by Blake et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Pustulosa by Spencer (1951) and Owen (1965); to Hemizonina by Spencer and Wright (1966); to Pustulosida by Blake (1989); and to Asteroidea by Blake et al. (2016).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1916 | Uranasteridae Spencer pp. 104-105 |
| 1951 | Petrasteridae Spencer p. 122 |
| 1965 | Petrasteridae Owen p. 567 |
| 1966 | Petrasteridae Spencer and Wright p. U43 |
| 1989 | Petrasteridae Blake p. 212 |
| 2016 | Petrasteridae Blake et al. p. 167 |
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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. †Petrasteridae Spencer 1951
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Invalid names: Uranasteridae Spencer 1916 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available