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Schizaster (Paraster) carinatus

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae

Taxonomy

Schizaster (Paraster) carinatus was named by McNamara and Philip (1980). Its type specimen is CPC 482 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Giralia Anticline, west flank, north end, which is in a Paleocene/Paleocene marine sandstone in the Pirie calcarenite Formation of Australia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Paraster hyperocus, Paraster nummuliticus, Paraster saipanicus, S. alevolatus, S. alveolatus, S. ameghinoi, S. baluchistanensis, S. batheri, S. branderianus, S. clevei, S. deserti, S. durbani, S. eurynotus, S. excavatus, S. fourtaui, S. foveatus, S. gaudryi, S. granti, S. humei, S. kinasaensis, S. libycus, S. lovistoi, S. major, S. meslei, S. miyazakiensis, S. mokattamensis, S. patagonensis, S. progoensis, S. scillae, S. subrhomboidalis, S. sufflatus, S. symmetricus, S. howa, S. legraini

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1980	Schizaster (Paraster) carinatus McNamara and Philip p. 50 figs. Fig. 1A-C)

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
—	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata
subphylum	Eleutherozoa
—	Echinozoa	()
class	Echinoidea	()
subclass	Euechinoidea	Bronn 1860

Rank	Name	Author
superorder	Acroechinoidea	()
—	Carinacea
—	Irregularia	()
—	Atelostomata
order	Spatangoida
suborder	Paleopneustina
family	Schizasteridae	()
genus	Schizaster	Agassiz 1835
subgenus	Paraster	()
species	carinatus

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.

†Schizaster (Paraster) carinatus McNamara and Philip 1980

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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 Middle Paleocene to the top of the Late/Upper Paleocene or 61.66000 to 56.00000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Paleocene - Late/Upper Paleocene	61.66 - 56.0	Australia (Western Australia)	Schizaster carinatus (type locality: 204581)