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Plesiosolaster moretonis

Taxonomy

Solaster moretonis was named by Forbes (1856). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Holotype BMNH 40421. Its type locality is Echinoderms, Oberer Hauptrogenstein, Late Bajocian, Schinznach, Aargau, which is in a Bajocian open shallow subtidal grainstone/marl in Switzerland.

It was recombined as Brachisolaster moretonis by Blake (1993); it was recombined as Plesiosolaster moretonis by Hess (1972), Villier (2010), Gale (2011).

Year	Name and author
1856	Solaster moretonis Forbes pp. 1-3 figs. pl. 1
1863	Solaster moretonis Wright pp. 104-106 figs. pl. 4, fig. 1
1876	Solaster moretonis Quenstedt p. 96 figs. pl. 93, fig. 33
1966	Solaster moretonis Spencer and Wright p. U67 figs. fig. 61.2
1972	Plesiosolaster moretonis Hess pp. 20-22 figs. fig. 21-22; pl. 2, fig. 4; pl. 11, fig.
1993	Brachisolaster moretonis Blake pp. 148-150 figs. fig. 1.2, 1.5; fig. 2.1-4
1993	Solaster moretonis Lewis p. 64
2010	Plesiosolaster moretonis Villier
2011	Plesiosolaster moretonis Gale p. 62