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Urasterella montana

Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Urasterellidae

Taxonomy
Palaeaster montanus was named by Shchurovskiy (1874). Its type specimen is at the Bergakademie Berlin and is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Urasterella montana by Schuchert (1915) and Owen (1965); it was recombined as Urasterella montanus by Blake and Koniecki (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1874Palaeaster montanus Shchurovskiy p. 324 figs. pl. 23 fig. 1; pl. 24 figs. 20-22
1909Palaeaster montanus Schöndorf p. 324 figs. pl. 23 fig. 1; pl. 24 figs. 20-22
1915Urasterella montana Schuchert pp. 189-190
1965Urasterella montana Owen p. 566
2020Urasterella montanus Blake and Koniecki p. 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
orderHadrosida
familyUrasterellidae
genusUrasterella
speciesmontana(Shchurovskiy 1874)

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.

Urasterella montana Shchurovskiy 1874
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Diagnosis
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