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Comptoniaster comptoni

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Taxonomy

Goniaster (Stellaster) comptoni was named by Forbes (1848). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Natural History Musem, London, syntype BNHM OR 34311. It is the type species of Comptoniaster.

It was recombined as Stellaster comptoni by Forbes (1850), Dujardin and Hupé (1862), Carpenter (1882); it was recombined as Comptonia comptoni by Spencer (1905), Spencer (1913), Spencer and Wright (1966); it was recombined as Comptoniaster comptoni by Breton (1983), Smith et al. (1988), Breton (1992), Lewis (1993).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1848	Goniaster (Stellaster) comptoni Forbes p. 476
1850	Stellaster comptoni Forbes pp. 335-336 figs. pl. 22 fig. 8
1862	Stellaster comptoni Dujardin and Hupé p. 408
1882	Stellaster comptoni Carpenter p. 530
1905	Comptonia comptoni Spencer pp. 69-70 figs. pl. 17 fig. 3, pl. 28 fig. 2
1913	Comptonia comptoni Spencer p. 131
1966	Comptonia comptoni Spencer and Wright p. U59 fig. 55.5
1983	Comptoniaster comptoni Breton p. 244
1988	Comptoniaster comptoni Smith et al. p. 202 figs. pl. 41 fig. 5
1992	Comptoniaster comptoni Breton pp. 218-220 figs. pl. 23 fig. 1-2
1993	Comptoniaster comptoni Lewis p. 52

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
—	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata
subphylum	Eleutherozoa
—	Asterozoa	()

Rank	Name	Author
class	Asteroidea
subclass	Ambuloasteroidea
infraclass	Neoasteroidea	()
superorder	Valvatacea
order	Valvatida
family	Goniasteridae
genus	Comptoniaster
species	comptoni	()

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.

†Comptoniaster comptoni Forbes 1848

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Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
G. Breton 1992	Disk pentagonal. Interbrachial arc nearly straight. Arms slender, elliptical in section. R/r ratio higher than two. Nearly 18 superomarginal plates per half-arc. Maximum width of inferomarginal plates in the interradius. Marginals of the disk short, wide, more squared in the arm. Ornament with dense fine granule-pits. Pedicellariae-pits common, oval to elongate.

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

high Mg calcitef

Ontogeny:

accretion, addition of partsp

Environment:

marinef

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

detritivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Dispersal:

waterf

Dispersal 2:

planktonicf

Created:

2007-10-02 04:01:50

Modified:

2007-10-02 06:05:14

Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Blake 1990, Aberhan 1992

Age range: Early/Lower Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	United Kingdom	Comptoniaster comptoni (59682)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	France (Normandy)	Comptoniaster comptoni (59658)