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Stuertzaster marstoni

Stenuroidea

Taxonomy
Palaeocoma marstoni was named by Salter (1857). It is the type species of Stuertzaster.

It was recombined as Sturtzaster marstoni by Schöndorf (1910), Schuchert (1914), Schuchert (1915), Spencer (1940) and Owen (1965); it was misspelled as Sturzaster marstoni by Goldring and Stephenson (1972); it was recombined as Stuertzaster marstoni by Spencer and Wright (1966), Dean Shackleton (2005) and Lewis et al. (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1857Palaeocoma marstoni Salter p. 328 figs. pl. 9 fig. 3a-c
1863Palaeocoma marstoni Wright p. 30 figs. fig. 7
1876Palaeocoma marstoni Quenstedt p. 81 figs. pl. 92 fig. 43
1886Palaeocoma marstoni Stürtz pp. 91-92
1910Sturtzaster marstoni Schöndorf p. 217
1914Sturtzaster marstoni Schuchert pp. 29, 46
1915Sturtzaster marstoni Schuchert p. 253
1940Sturtzaster marstoni Spencer pp. 518-521 figs. figs. 334, 337, 338; pl. 33 fig. 3; pl.
1965Sturtzaster marstoni Owen p. 547
1966Stuertzaster marstoni Spencer and Wright p. U80 figs. fig. 68.1a-d
1972Sturzaster marstoni Goldring and Stephenson p. 619
2005Stuertzaster marstoni Dean Shackleton p. 74 figs. pl. 5 figs. 5, 6
2007Stuertzaster marstoni Lewis et al. pp. 32-33 figs. Fig. 2B, pl. 1 fig. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
RankNameAuthor
subphylumEleutherozoa
Asterozoa()
classStenuroidea()
genusStuertzaster()
speciesmarstoni()

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.

Stuertzaster marstoni Salter 1857
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. Dean Shackleton 2005As for genus, by monotypy