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Alepidaster flexuosus
Taxonomy
Protaster flexuosus was named by Miller and Dyer (1878). Its type specimen is Syntypes MCZ 108078, 108079 and is not a trace fossil.
It was recombined as Protasterina flexuosa by James (1896); it was recombined as Alepidaster flexuosus by Schuchert (1915); it was recombined as Drepanaster flexuosus by Spencer (1934).
It was recombined as Protasterina flexuosa by James (1896); it was recombined as Alepidaster flexuosus by Schuchert (1915); it was recombined as Drepanaster flexuosus by Spencer (1934).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1878 | Protaster flexuosus Miller and Dyer p. 31 figs. pl; 2 fig. 1 |
| 1889 | Protaster flexuosus Miller p. 276 figs. fig. 409 |
| 1896 | Protasterina flexuosa James pp. 139-140 |
| 1908 | Protaster flexuosus Parks p. 368 |
| 1915 | Alepidaster flexuosus Schuchert pp. 231-233 figs. pl. 36 fig. 4 |
| 1934 | Drepanaster flexuosus Spencer p. 491 |
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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.
†Alepidaster flexuosus Miller and Dyer 1878
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| References: Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Collections
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