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Mecaster batnensis

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae

Taxonomy
Hemiaster batnensis was named by Coquand (1862). It is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Hemiaster (Mecaster) batnensis by Berndt (2003); it was recombined as Mecaster batnensis by Smith (1991), Manso and Andrade (2008), Musavu Moussavou et al. (2017) and Hook and Cobban (2017).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1862Hemiaster batnensis Coquand p. 284 figs. pl. 26, figs. 6-8
1888Hemiaster delgadoi de Loriol
1925Hemiaster jacksoni Maury pp. 518-520
1930Hemiaster jacksoni Maury p. 518
1936Hemiaster jacksoni Maury p. 278
1936Hemiaster cedroensis Maury p. 280 figs. pl. 2, figs. 3, 7
1936Leiostomaster boesei Smiser
1953Hemiaster jacksoni Cooke p. 33 figs. Pl 12, figs 5-11
1991Mecaster batnensis Smith p. 56 figs. Pl 12A-L; pl 13A-N; text-figs 45D-G,46,47,48A,49
2003Hemiaster (Mecaster) batnensis Berndt p. 86
2008Mecaster batnensis Manso and Andrade p. 322
2017Mecaster batnensis Hook and Cobban p. 9 fig. 1,8
2017Mecaster batnensis Musavu Moussavou et al. p. 289 fig. 4C,F,G

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
Carinacea
Irregularia()
Atelostomata
orderSpatangoida
familyHemiasteridae
genusMecaster
speciesbatnensis(Coquand 1862)

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.

Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862
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Invalid names: Hemiaster cedroensis Maury 1936 [synonym], Hemiaster delgadoi de Loriol 1888 [synonym], Hemiaster jacksoni Maury 1925 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available