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Recurvaster radiatus

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Taxonomy
Metopaster tumidus radiatus was named by Spencer (1913). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, holotype SM B.48513.

It was recombined as Recurvaster radiatus by Rasmussen (1950), Müller (1953), Müller (1961), Spencer and Wright (1966), Schulz and Weitschat (1975), Rasmussen (1979), Gale (1987), Helm (1997), Reich and Frenzel (2002).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Metopaster tumidus radiatus Spencer p. 113 figs. pl. 14, fig. 3; pl. 15, fig. 3-5
1940Metopaster tumidus radiatus Wright and Wright p. 236 fig. 6
1943Recurvaster stevensensis Brünnich-Nielsen pp. 39-41 figs. fig. 26-28; pl. 2, fig. 3
1943Recurvaster echinatus Brünnich-Nielsen pp. 41-43 figs. pl. 2, fig. 4-9
1950Recurvaster radiatus Rasmussen pp. 57-64 figs. fig. 1-2; pl. 7, fig. 1-7; pl. 8, fig. 1
1953Recurvaster radiatus Müller p. 56 figs. pl; 3, fig. p, q, r; pl. 8, fig. xx, yy,
1961Recurvaster radiatus Müller p. 279 figs. text-fig. 3b
1966Recurvaster radiatus Spencer and Wright p. U57 figs. fig. 53.2
1971Recurvaster gibber Schulz and Weitschat pp. 116-118 figs. pl. 24, fig. 10-17
1975Recurvaster radiatus Schulz and Weitschat pp. 263-264 figs. pl. 26, fig. 5
1975Recurvaster gibber Schulz and Weitschat pp. 264-266 figs. pl. 26, fig. 6-8
1979Recurvaster radiatus Rasmussen p. 70
1980Recurvaster gibber Pockrandt p. 153 figs. text-fig. 2
1987Recurvaster radiatus Gale pp. 45-46
1997Recurvaster radiatus Helm p. 105 figs. fig. 13
2002Recurvaster gibber Reich and Frenzel p. 182
2002Recurvaster radiatus Reich and Frenzel p. 182

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmbuloasteroidea
infraclassNeoasteroidea()
superorderValvatacea
orderValvatida
familyGoniasteridae
subfamilyGoniasterinae
genusRecurvaster
speciesradiatus()

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.

†Recurvaster radiatus Spencer 1913
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Invalid names: Recurvaster echinatus Brünnich-Nielsen 1943 [synonym], Recurvaster gibber Schulz and Weitschat 1971 [synonym], Recurvaster stevensensis Brünnich-Nielsen 1943 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
A. S. Gale 1987Large Recurvaster. The strongly tumid superomarginals bear numerous, deeply impressed granule pits.
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, Aberhan 1992, Blake 1990

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.6 - 72.2Belgium (Liege) Recurvaster radiatus (32147 32150)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) Recurvaster gibber (32022)