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Urasterella ruthveni

Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Urasterellidae

Taxonomy
Uraster ruthveni was named by Forbes (1848). Its type specimen is Holotype MSM A5497 and is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Urasterella.

It was recombined as Palaeaster ruthveni by Salter (1857) and Wright (1863); it was recombined as Urasterella ruthveni by McCoy (1851), Schuchert (1914), Schuchert (1915), Spencer (1918), Owen (1965), Blake and Rozhnov (2007), Lewis et al. (2007), Blake (2018) and Blake and Koniecki (2020).

Subspecies
U. leintwardinensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1848Uraster ruthveni Forbes p. 436
1849Uraster ruthveni Forbes p. 1 figs. pl. 1 fig. 1
1851Urasterella ruthveni McCoy p. 59
1854Uraster ruthveni Murchison figs. fig. 39.3
1857Palaeaster ruthveni Salter p. 326
1863Palaeaster ruthveni Wright p. 25
1914Urasterella ruthveni Schuchert pp. 28, 44, 45
1915Urasterella ruthveni Schuchert p. 187
1918Urasterella ruthveni Spencer pp. 140-142 figs. text-fig. 90, 91, pl. 9 fig. 5, pl. 10 figs. 4-6
1965Urasterella ruthveni Owen p. 565
2007Urasterella ruthveni Blake and Rozhnov p. 526
2007Urasterella ruthveni Lewis et al. p. 39 figs. pl. 2 fig. 7
2018Urasterella ruthveni Blake p. 36
2020Urasterella ruthveni Blake and Koniecki p. 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
—Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
orderHadrosida
familyUrasterellidae
genusUrasterella
speciesruthveni()

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.

†Urasterella ruthveni Forbes 1848
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitef
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Grouping: solitaryf
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: carnivoref
Vision: limitedc
Reproduction: oviparousf
Dispersal: waterf
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2009-09-08 02:28:25
Modified: 2009-09-08 04:28:25
Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992, Blake and Rozhnov 2007

Age range: Leintwardine or 421.30000 to 419.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Leintwardine421.3 - 419.2United Kingdom Urasterella ruthveni (95143)