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Sphaeraster tabulatus

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Sphaerasteridae

Taxonomy
Asterias tabulata was named by Goldfuss (1833). Its type specimen is at the Museum für Natukunde, Berlin and is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Sphaeraster.

It was recombined as Sphaerites tabulatus by Quenstedt (1852), Quenstedt (1858), von Zittel (1876), Fraas (1886) and Schöndorf (1906); it was recombined as Sphaeraster tabulatus by Fraas (1910), Hess (1975), Blake (1984) and Gale (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1833Asterias tabulata Goldfuss p. 210 figs. pl. 63, fig. 7
1852Sphaerites juvenis Quenstedt figs. pl. 55 fig. 30, 31
1852Sphaerites punctatus Quenstedt figs. pl. 55 fig. 34
1852Sphaerites tabulatus Quenstedt p. 630 figs. pl. 55, fig. 47-49
1858Sphaerites punctatus Quenstedt pp. 585, 727 figs. pl. 73, fig. 91
1858Sphaerites tabulatus Quenstedt pp. 585, 651 figs. pl. 80 figs. 39-47
1858Sphaerites juvenis Quenstedt p. 650
1876Asterias tabulata Quenstedt p. 110 figs. pl. 94, fig. 74-98
1876Asterias annulosa Quenstedt p. 112 figs. pl. 94, fig. 99-103 (not 104)
1876Sphaerites juvenis Quenstedt pp. 119-125 figs. pl. 94, fig. 146-205
1876Sphaerites punctatus von Zittel p. 236 figs. fig. 274b
1876Sphaerites tabulatus von Zittel p. 236 figs. fig. 274a
1883Asterias tabulata von Zittel p. 462 figs. fig. 335a
1883Sphaerites punctatus von Zittel p. 462 figs. fig. 335b
1886Sphaerites annulosus Fraas p. 260
1886Sphaerites tabulatus Fraas p. 260
1886Sphaerites juvenis Fraas p. 261 figs. pl. 30, fig. 35
1886Sphaerites punctatus Fraas p. 261
1906Sphaerites punctatus Schöndorf pp. 257-260 figs. fig. 14-20, pl. 24, fig. 1-4; pl. 25
1906Sphaerites juvenis Schöndorf pp. 260-262 figs. text-fig. 1, 21, 34, pl. 24, fig. 5-6
1906Sphaerites tabulatus Schöndorf pp. 263-264 figs. fig. 2-3
1906Sphaerites annulosus Schöndorf p. 264 figs. fig. 4
1910Sphaeraster punctatus Fraas p. 132 figs. text-fig. 85; pl. 28, fig. 20
1910Sphaeraster tabulatus Fraas p. 132 figs. pl. 28, fig. 19
1966Sphaeraster punctatus Spencer and Wright p. U55 figs. fig. 52.2
1975Sphaeraster tabulatus Hess p. 37 figs. pl. 7, fig. 7-9
1984Sphaeraster punctatus Blake p. 76 figs. fig. 1d
1984Sphaeraster tabulatus Blake p. 76 figs. fig. 1h, fig. 2c, fig. 3, fig. 4b-d, fig. 8d
2009Sphaeraster punctatus Neumann pp. 92-94 figs. figs. 1-3
2021Sphaeraster tabulatus Gale pp. 704-710 figs. Figs 3A–K, 6A–D, 7C–H, L, N, Q, 8A–E, 9A–Q, 10A, B, 11, 12, 13A–H, P

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Asterozoa()
RankNameAuthor
classAsteroidea
subclassAmbuloasteroidea
infraclassNeoasteroidea()
superorderValvatacea
orderValvatida
familySphaerasteridae
genusSphaeraster
speciestabulatus()

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.

†Sphaeraster tabulatus Goldfuss 1833
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Invalid names: Asterias annulosa Quenstedt 1876 [synonym], Sphaeraster punctatus Quenstedt 1852 [synonym], Sphaerites juvenis Quenstedt 1852 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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