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Cardiaster smocki
Taxonomy
Cardiaster smocki was named by Clark (1907). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 2.5 miles NW of Matawan, which is in a Santonian marine claystone in the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1907 | Cardiaster smocki Clark |
| 1915 | Cardiaster smocki Clark and Twitchell p. 84 |
| 1953 | Cardiaster smocki Cooke p. 28 figs. Pl 11, figs 8-10 |
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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 smocki Clark 1907
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Santonian or 85.80000 to 83.50000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Santonian | USA (New Jersey) | Cardiaster smocki (type locality: 78172) |