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Pentasteria boisteli
Taxonomy
Pentasteria boisteli was named by Valette (1929). Its type specimen is Holotype FSL 27445 and is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Archastropecten boisteli by Hess (1955).
It was recombined as Archastropecten boisteli by Hess (1955).
Synonymy list
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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.
†Pentasteria boisteli Valette 1929
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| H. Hess 1955 | Arm constricted at their base. Abactinal plates of the disc tight, hexagonal and covered with granules. Superomarginal plates covered with dense granules, most plates also bearing a short conical spine on a crater-shape tubercle. Inferomarginal row parallel to that of the superomarginal plates. |