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Ulrichaster ulrichi

Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Urasterellidae

Taxonomy
Urasterella ulrichi was named by Schuchert (1915). Its type specimen is Holotype USNM 60612 and is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Ulrichaster.

It was recombined as Ulrichaster ulrichi by Owen (1965), Jell and Theron (1999), Blake (2018) and Blake and Koniecki (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Urasterella ulrichi Schuchert pp. 183-185 figs. pl. 29 fig. 1, pl. 30 fig. 6, 7
1965Ulrichaster ulrichi Owen p. 566
1999Ulrichaster ulrichi Jell and Theron p. 155
2018Ulrichaster ulrichi Blake p. 37
2020Ulrichaster ulrichi Blake and Koniecki p. 14

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
—Asterozoa()
classAsteroidea
orderHadrosida
familyUrasterellidae
genusUlrichaster
speciesulrichi()

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.

†Ulrichaster ulrichi Schuchert 1915
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Diagnosis
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