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Mesopalaeaster bellulus

Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Mesopalaeasteridae

Taxonomy
Petraster bellulus was named by Billings (1865). Its type specimen is Holotype 2665, Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa and is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Mesopalaeaster bellulus by Schuchert (1915).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. lancolatus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Petraster bellulus Billings p. 393 figs. text-fig. 368
1889Petraster bellulus Miller p. 269 figs. fig. 389
1915Mesopalaeaster bellulus Schuchert pp. 91-92 figs. text-fig. 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
—Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
orderEuaxosida
familyMesopalaeasteridae
genusMesopalaeaster
speciesbellulus()

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.

†Mesopalaeaster bellulus Billings 1865
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Diagnosis
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