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Cardiaster deciper
Taxonomy
Cardiaster deciper was named by Cooke (1953). Its type specimen is USNM 108389 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 13539, Big Deciper Creek, which is in a Campanian carbonate chalk in the Saratoga Chalk Formation of Arkansas.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by M. Clapham on 2018-10-17
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1953 | Cardiaster deciper Cooke p. 27 figs. Pl 10, figs 3-6 |
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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.
†Cardiaster deciper Cooke 1953
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan 1992 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (Arkansas) | Cardiaster deciper (type locality: 78165 78166) |