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Aguayoaster

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae

Taxonomy
Aguayoaster is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Brissidae by Fischer (1966); to Schizasteridae by Kier (1984) and Donovan and Rowe (2000); and to Spatangoida by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1966Aguayoaster Fischer p. U583
1984Aguayoaster Kier p. 67
2000Aguayoaster Donovan and Rowe p. 656
2002Aguayoaster Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
Carinacea
Irregularia()
Atelostomata
orderSpatangoida
suborderPaleopneustina
familySchizasteridae()
genusAguayoaster

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.

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Aguayoaster aquayoi Sanchez Roig 1952
Aguayoaster nuevitasensi Sanchez Roig 1949
Aguayoaster schickleri Donovan and Rowe 2000
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calciteo
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: shallow infaunalo
Diet: deposit feedero
Diet 2: detritivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2004-02-28 12:18:10
Modified: 2009-10-08 16:32:56
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Bartonian to the top of the Late/Upper Eocene or 41.30000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bartonian - Late/Upper Eocene41.3 - 33.9Jamaica A. schickleri (69727)