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Neopalaeaster crawfordsvillensis

Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Palaeasteridae

Taxonomy
Palaeaster crawfordsvillensis was named by Miller (1880). Its type specimen is Holotype USNM 60607 and is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Neopalaeaster.

It was recombined as Neopalaeaster crawfordsvillensis by Schuchert (1915), Blake and Elliott (2003) and Blake (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1880Palaeaster crawfordsvillensis Miller p. 256 figs. pl. 15 fig. 3
1889Palaeaster crawfordsvillensis Miller p. 265 figs. fig. 379
1915Neopalaeaster crawfordsvillensis Schuchert pp. 136-137 figs. pl. 13 fig. 5, pl. 23 fig. 4
2003Neopalaeaster crawfordsvillensis Blake and Elliott p. 481 figs. 3.1-3.3
2018Neopalaeaster crawfordsvillensis Blake p. 41

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
orderHadrosida
familyPalaeasteridae
genusNeopalaeaster
speciescrawfordsvillensis()

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.

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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
D. B. Blake and D. R. Elliott 2003As for the genus, by monotypy