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Stibaraster ratcliffei

Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Palasterinidae

Taxonomy
Stibaraster ratcliffei was named by Blake and Guensburg (1993). It is not extant. Its type specimen is University of Utah, holotype UUIP1319. Its type locality is north face of Fossil Mountain, section K-North of Hintze, millard county, which is in a Llanvirn marine limestone in the Lehman Formation of Utah. It is the type species of Stibaraster.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Stibaraster ratcliffei Blake and Guensburg p. 111
2005Stibaraster ratcliffei Dean Shackleton p. 94
2018Stibaraster ratcliffei Blake p. 29

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
orderEuaxosida
familyPalasterinidae
genusStibaraster
speciesratcliffei

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.

Stibaraster ratcliffei Blake and Guensburg 1993
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
D. B. Blake and T. E. Guensburg 1993Same as for the genus, by monotypy
J. Dean Shackleton 2005As for genus, by monotypy