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Dipsacaster africanus
Taxonomy
Dipsacaster africanus was named by Blake and Reboul (2011). Its type specimen is Holotype HistoryMHNT.PAL. 2010.2.3A–3G and is a 3D body fossil.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2011 | Dipsacaster africanus Blake and Reboul pp. 1031-1032 figs. Fig. 5 |
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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.
†Dipsacaster africanus Blake and Reboul 2011
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| D. B. Blake and R. Reboul 2011 | A species of Dipsacaster in which the disk appears small as compared to the long, gradually tapering arms and attenuated arm tips. Inferomarginals bearing robust fringe of about three flattened spinelets, ventral surface of ossicle bearing many pointed spinelets of varied length. Ossicular surfaces pustulose. Abactinals, abactinal spinelets probably relatively robust. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Blake 1990, Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||