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Pentasteria (Archastropecten) cotteswoldiae
Taxonomy
Asterias cotteswoldia was named by Murchison (1845). It is not extant.
It was recombined as Astropecten cotteswoldiae by Forbes (1848), Morris (1854), Wright (1857), Dujardin and Hupé (1862), Wright (1863), Schilling (1870), Quenstedt (1876), Fraas (1886), de Loriol (1887), Mercier (1935), Hérenger (1944); it was recombined as Crenaster cottaldina by d'Orbigny (1850); it was recombined as Crenaster cotteswoldiae by Pictet (1857); it was recombined as Archastropecten cotteswoldiae by Hess (1955); it was recombined as Pentasteria (Archastropecten) cotteswoldiae by Spencer and Wright (1966).
It was recombined as Astropecten cotteswoldiae by Forbes (1848), Morris (1854), Wright (1857), Dujardin and Hupé (1862), Wright (1863), Schilling (1870), Quenstedt (1876), Fraas (1886), de Loriol (1887), Mercier (1935), Hérenger (1944); it was recombined as Crenaster cottaldina by d'Orbigny (1850); it was recombined as Crenaster cotteswoldiae by Pictet (1857); it was recombined as Archastropecten cotteswoldiae by Hess (1955); it was recombined as Pentasteria (Archastropecten) cotteswoldiae by Spencer and Wright (1966).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1845 | Asterias cotteswoldia Murchison p. 94 figs. pl. 3 fig. 5 |
| 1848 | Astropecten cotteswoldiae Forbes p. 479 |
| 1850 | Crenaster cottaldina d'Orbigny p. 320 |
| 1854 | Astropecten cotteswoldiae Morris p. 72 |
| 1857 | Crenaster cotteswoldiae Pictet p. 271 |
| 1857 | Astropecten cotteswoldiae Wright p. 402 |
| 1862 | Astropecten cotteswoldiae Dujardin and Hupé p. 430 |
| 1863 | Astropecten cotteswoldiae Wright pp. 116-118 figs. pl. 6 fig. 2, pl. 9 fig. 1,3-4, pl. 10 fig. 1,3 |
| 1870 | Astropecten cotteswoldiae Schilling p. 235 |
| 1876 | Astropecten cotteswoldiae Quenstedt p. 27 figs. pl. 91 fig. 7 |
| 1886 | Astropecten cotteswoldiae Fraas p. 251 |
| 1887 | Astropecten cotteswoldiae de Loriol p. 317 |
| 1935 | Astropecten cotteswoldiae Mercier p. 41 |
| 1944 | Astropecten cotteswoldiae Hérenger p. 43 figs. fig. 9 |
| 1955 | Archastropecten cotteswoldiae Hess pp. 40-41 |
| 1966 | Pentasteria (Archastropecten) cotteswoldiae Spencer and Wright p. U46 figs. fig. 44.4 |
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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.
†Pentasteria (Archastropecten) cotteswoldiae Murchison 1845
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†Archastropecten cotteswoldiae stonesvieldensis Wright 1863
†Archastropecten cotteswoldiae stamfordensis Wright 1863
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| H. Hess 1955 | Abacinal plate rounded in external view. Enlarged tubercles for articulation of spines on the inferomarginal organized in a distal row and a set of three on the abradial margin. Actinolateral fields with 3 rows of plates in the disc and the proximal part of the arm. Spine-pits numerous, dense covering the external face of the superomarginal plate. Mouth angle plate very large and wide. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Aberhan 1992, Blake 1990, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available