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Cretasterias reticulatus
Taxonomy
Cretasterias reticulatus was named by Gale and Villier (2013). Its type specimen is Holotype OUM KX 15734, paratypes NHM EE 13838, MHNH 9166, MHNH 9197 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bakrit, which is in a Maastrichtian paralic grainstone in Morocco. It is the type species of Cretasterias.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2013 | Cretasterias reticulatus Gale and Villier pp. 579-580 figs. Figs 3, 4, 7, 8B |
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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.
†Cretasterias reticulatus Gale and Villier 2013
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 72.20000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Morocco | Cretasterias reticulatus (type locality: 145471) |