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Cuneaster armatus
Taxonomy
Astropecten armatus was named by Forbes (1848). Its type specimen is Holotype BNHM OR 57501 and is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Cuneaster armatus by Hess (1955).
It was recombined as Cuneaster armatus by Hess (1955).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1848 | Astropecten armatus Forbes p. 479 |
| 1848 | Astropecten crispatus Forbes p. 479 |
| 1849 | Astropecten armatus Forbes figs. pl. 3, fig. 4 |
| 1849 | Astropecten crispatus Forbes figs. pl. 3, fig. 3 |
| 1852 | Astropecten armatus Forbes p. 29 figs. pl. 4, fig. 1 |
| 1852 | Astropecten crispatus Forbes p. 29 figs. pl. 4, fig. 2 |
| 1857 | Astropecten armatus Pictet p. 271 |
| 1857 | Crenaster crispatus Pictet p. 271 |
| 1862 | Astropecten armatus Dujardin and Hupé p. 430 |
| 1862 | Astropecten crispatus Dujardin and Hupé p. 430 |
| 1893 | Astropecten armatus Sacco p. 745 |
| 1893 | Astropecten crispatus Sacco p. 745 |
| 1909 | Astropecten armatus von Linstow p. 56 |
| 1909 | Astropecten crispatus von Linstow p. 57 |
| 1937 | Astropecten armatus Lehner p. 172 |
| 1955 | Archastropecten crispatus Hess p. 42 |
| 1955 | Cuneaster armatus Hess pp. 59-60 |
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†Cuneaster armatus Forbes 1848
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Invalid names: Astropecten crispatus Forbes 1848 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| H. Hess 1955 | Disc large. Short, blunt arms, wide at base. Inferomarginal plates wide and short, rectangular. Well-defined, moderately deep intermarginal fascioles. External face of inferomarginals with tubercles of irregular size, frequently coalescent and forming oblique ridges in the adradial part. Ventrolateral area reduced extending only in the base of the arm. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Aberhan 1992, Blake 1990, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available