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Geocoma schoentalensis

Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Aplocomidae

Taxonomy
Geocoma schoentalensis was named by Hess and Meyer (2008). Its type specimen is Holotype and paratype G1.6278, Museum BL, Liestal, Switzerland and is not a trace fossil.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Geocoma schoentalensis Hess and Meyer pp. 30-33 figs. figs. 3-8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Asterozoa()
classOphiuroidea
RankNameAuthor
suborderMyophiurina()
infraclassMetophiuridaMatsumoto 1913
superorderEuryophiurida
orderOphiurida()
infraorderChilophiurina
familyAplocomidae
subfamilyAplocominae
genusGeocoma
speciesschoentalensis

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Geocoma schoentalensis Hess and Meyer 2008
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
H. Hess and C. A. Meyer 2008Disk covered on both sides by dense granulation on delicate and imbricating plates; radial shields rather small; oral and adoral shields probably free from granules; oral papillae with two conical proximal and three leaf-like distal papillae; teeth obtuse and larger than proximal papillae; second tentacle pore in the mouth slit; dorsal arm plates at the disk margin short, sickle-shaped; lateral arm plates not swollen, with four short, adpressed spines, the ventral one rounded, the three dorsal one flattened, spine length two thirds of an arm segment; surface of lateral arm plates at most weackly striated.