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Forbesasterias gaveyi
Taxonomy
Asterias gaveyi was named by Forbes (1850). Its type specimen is Holotype BNHM E 1638 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mickleton Tunnel, near Chipping Campden, which is in a Davoei transition zone/lower shoreface shale in the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Forbesasterias.
It was recombined as Uraster gaveyi by Wright (1863), Quenstedt (1876); it was recombined as Forbesasterias gaveyi by Fau et al. (2024).
It was recombined as Uraster gaveyi by Wright (1863), Quenstedt (1876); it was recombined as Forbesasterias gaveyi by Fau et al. (2024).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1850 | Asterias gaveyi Forbes figs. pl. 3 |
| 1863 | Uraster gaveyi Wright pp. 100-102 figs. pl. 1, fig. 1 |
| 1876 | Uraster gaveyi Quenstedt p. 85 figs. pl. 93, fig. 29 |
| 1935 | Asterias gaveyi Mercier p. 47 figs. pl. 2, fig. 18a-b |
| 1966 | Asterias gaveyi Spencer and Wright p. U75 figs. fig. 66.1 |
| 1993 | Asterias gaveyi Lewis p. 48 |
| 1996 | Asterias gaveyi Blake p. 179 |
| 2024 | Forbesasterias gaveyi Fau et al. p. 6 figs. Figs. 1A, 2 and 3 |
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†Forbesasterias gaveyi Forbes 1850
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. Fau et al. 2024 | As genus by monotypy. |
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992 | |||||