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Aganasteridae

Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Aganasteridae

Taxonomy
Aganasteridae was named by Stürtz (1899). It is not extant. Its type is Aganaster.

It was synonymized subjectively with Ophiurinidae by Owen (1965); it was reranked as the subfamily Aganasterinae by Spencer and Wright (1966).

It was assigned to Streptophiurae by Schuchert (1915); to Ophiuroidea by Spencer (1925); to Ophiuricae by Lehmann (1957); to Ophiuridae by Spencer and Wright (1966); and to Chilophiurina by Jell (1997).

Subtaxa
Aganaster (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1899Aganasteridae Stürtz
1915Aganasteridae Schuchert p. 263
1925Aganasteridae Spencer pp. 283-284
1957Aganasteridae Lehmann p. 74
1966Aganasterinae Spencer and Wright p. U93
1997Aganasteridae Jell p. 312

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Asterozoa()
RankNameAuthor
classOphiuroidea
suborderMyophiurina()
infraclassMetophiuridaMatsumoto 1913
superorderEuryophiurida
orderOphiurida()
suborderChilophiurina()
familyAganasteridae
familyAganasteridae

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.

Fm. †Aganasteridae Stürtz 1899
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G. †Aganaster Miller and Gurley 1891
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†Aganaster fujianensis Liao and Wang 2002
†Aganaster gregarius Meek and Worthen 1869
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitec
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: slow-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: detritivorec
Diet 2: suspension feederc
Vision: blindc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-29 11:30:09
Modified: 2010-02-12 01:58:57
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Tournaisian to the top of the Capitanian or 358.86000 to 259.51000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tournaisian358.86 - 346.7Poland Aganaster jagiellonicus (64633)
Chadian - Arundian346.7 - 339.9USA (Indiana) Aganaster gregarius (699 8115 8127 8132 8133) Aganaster sp. (556)
Capitanian264.28 - 259.51China (Fujian) Aganaster fujianensis (97427) Ophioderma huaanensis (120773)