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Comptoniaster comptoni

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).

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

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)