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Aldebarania arenitea
Taxonomy
Aldebarania arenitea was named by Blake and Sturgeon (1995). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Holotype USNM 476526, Paratypes USNM 481615-481617. Its type locality is Asteroidea, Peedee fm., Martin Marieta Quarry, Rocky Point, which is in a Maastrichtian foreshore sandstone in the Peedee Formation of North Carolina. It is the type species of Aldebarania.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1995 | Aldebarania arenitea Blake and Sturgeon pp. 377-380 figs. 1.1-12 |
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†Aldebarania arenitea Blake and Sturgeon 1995
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| D. B. Blake and K. Sturgeon 1995 | Same as the genus, by monotypy. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Blake 1990, Aberhan 1992 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (North Carolina) | Aldebarania arenitea (type locality: 59866) |