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Manfredaster bulbiferus
Taxonomy
Oreaster bulbiferus was named by Forbes (1848). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Geological Survey of Great Britain.
It was recombined as Pentaceros bulbiferus by Valette (1902) and Spencer (1905); it was recombined as Stauranderaster bulbiferus by Spencer (1907), Spencer (1908), Spencer (1913), Valette (1915), Mercier (1935), Mercier (1936) and Schulz and Weitschat (1971); it was recombined as Aspidaster bulbiferus by Spencer and Wright (1966), Breton (1978) and Helm (1997); it was recombined as Manfredaster bulbiferus by Villier et al. (2004).
It was recombined as Pentaceros bulbiferus by Valette (1902) and Spencer (1905); it was recombined as Stauranderaster bulbiferus by Spencer (1907), Spencer (1908), Spencer (1913), Valette (1915), Mercier (1935), Mercier (1936) and Schulz and Weitschat (1971); it was recombined as Aspidaster bulbiferus by Spencer and Wright (1966), Breton (1978) and Helm (1997); it was recombined as Manfredaster bulbiferus by Villier et al. (2004).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1848 | Oreaster bulbiferus Forbes p. 468 |
| 1850 | Oreaster bulbiferus Forbes pp. 328-329 figs. pl. 24, fig. 27 |
| 1862 | Oreaster bulbiferus Dujardin and Hupé p. 389 |
| 1882 | Oreaster bulbiferus Carpenter pp. 531-533 figs. text-fig. |
| 1902 | Pentaceros bulbiferus Valette pp. 20-22 figs. fig. 1-12 |
| 1905 | Pentaceros bulbiferus Spencer pp. 77-79 figs. pl. 20, fig. 1-2; pl. 21, fig. 1, 3-4; pl. 23, fig. 2 |
| 1907 | Stauranderaster bulbiferus Spencer pp. 119-120 figs. figs. 4, 25, 30, 31, 34 |
| 1908 | Stauranderaster bulbiferus Spencer p. 135 |
| 1913 | Stauranderaster bulbiferus Spencer pp. 133-134 figs. fig. b, pl. 13, figs. 1-10 |
| 1915 | Stauranderaster bulbiferus Valette pp. 44-46 figs. fig. 15 |
| 1935 | Stauranderaster bulbiferus Mercier p. 35 figs. pl. 2, fig. 3a-f |
| 1936 | Stauranderaster bulbiferus Mercier p. 24 |
| 1966 | Aspidaster bulbiferus Spencer and Wright p. U55 figs. fig. 51.3 |
| 1971 | Stauranderaster bulbiferus Schulz and Weitschat p. 129 figs. pl. 26, fig. 5 |
| 1978 | Aspidaster bulbiferus Breton pp. 14-16 figs. pl. 1, fig. 1 |
| 1997 | Aspidaster bulbiferus Helm p. 115 figs. fig. 21 |
| 2004 | Manfredaster bulbiferus Villier et al. p. 40 |
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†Manfredaster bulbiferus Forbes 1848
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. Villier et al. 2004 | Disk highly domed. Arms triangular, high. Primary interradial plates large, highly domed with a conical to rounded external face and a lobate, thick base. Abactinal plates, lobate, punctuated of varying size. R/r ratio nearly equals to two. In external view, radial plates of the arm hexagonal near the arm tip and T-shape in the constricted part of the arm. External face of plates with a depressed margin and raised central area with large granule pits. |
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992 | |||||
Age range: base of the Coniacian to the top of the Late/Upper Santonian or 89.80000 to 83.50000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Turonian | Czech Republic | Stauranderaster bulbiferus (90516) | |
| Coniacian | France | Stauranderaster bulbiferus (72287) | |
| Late/Upper Coniacian - Early/Lower Santonian | France | Aspidaster bulbiferus (59612 59659 59675) | |
| Late/Upper Santonian | France | Aspidaster bulbiferus (59677) | |
| Middle Santonian - Late/Upper Santonian | France | Aspidaster bulbiferus (59652) |