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Stauranderaster coronatus
Taxonomy
Oreaster coronatus was named by Forbes (1848). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Natural History Museum, London, holotype BNHM OR 35480. It is the type species of Stauranderaster.
It was recombined as Pentaceros coronatus by Spencer (1905); it was recombined as Stauranderaster coronatus by Spencer (1907), Spencer (1913), Valette (1915), Spencer and Wright (1966), Smith et al. (1988) and Lewis (1993).
It was recombined as Pentaceros coronatus by Spencer (1905); it was recombined as Stauranderaster coronatus by Spencer (1907), Spencer (1913), Valette (1915), Spencer and Wright (1966), Smith et al. (1988) and Lewis (1993).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1848 | Oreaster coronatus Forbes p. 467 |
| 1850 | Oreaster coronatus Forbes pp. 327-328 figs. pl. 21, fig. 7 |
| 1862 | Oreaster coronatus Dujardin and Hupé p. 369 |
| 1882 | Oreaster coronatus Carpenter p. 530 |
| 1905 | Pentaceros coronatus Spencer pp. 82-83 figs. pl. 19, fig. 1; pl. 24, fig. 2; pl. 25, fig. 9 |
| 1907 | Stauranderaster coronatus Spencer p. 114 figs. fig. 7, 28 |
| 1913 | Stauranderaster coronatus Spencer p. 135 |
| 1915 | Stauranderaster coronatus Valette p. 56 |
| 1966 | Stauranderaster coronatus Spencer and Wright p. U55 figs. fig. 51.2 |
| 1988 | Stauranderaster coronatus Smith et al. pp. 193-194 figs. pl. 41, fig. 2 |
| 1993 | Stauranderaster coronatus Lewis p. 65 |
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†Stauranderaster coronatus Forbes 1848
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| W. K. Spencer 1907 | Body pentagonal with prolonged arms; disc thick, convex, and coronated with a circle of large, more or less polygonal nodose pyramidal tubercules (spines). Ossicles of disc variable in size and very irregular in shape; towards the center for the most part largest. |
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.50000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Cenomanian | United Kingdom | Stauranderaster coronatus (59708) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | France (Normandy) | Stauranderaster coronatus (59658) |