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Disaster

Echinoidea - Disasteridae

Taxonomy
Disaster is a genus. It is not extant. It is the type genus of Disasteridae, Disasterinae.

It was assigned to Disasterinae by Jesionek-Szymanska (1963); to Disasteridae by Wagner and Durham (1966) and Smith (1995); and to Disasteroida by Sepkoski (2002).

Sister genera
Dysaster

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1839Dysaster Agassiz
1963Disaster Jesionek-Szymanska p. 379
1966Disaster Wagner and Durham p. U527
1995Disaster Smith p. 750
2002Disaster Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Echinozoa()
RankNameAuthor
classEchinoidea()
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
Carinacea
Irregularia()
Atelostomata
familyDisasteridae
genusDisaster

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.

G. †Disaster
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Disaster granulosus Goldfuss 1827
Disaster moeschi Desor 1858
Disaster subelongatus d'Orbigny 1853
Invalid names: Dysaster Agassiz 1839 [nomen vanum]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitec
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalc
Diet: grazerc
Diet 2: deposit feederc
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-28 12:05:24
Modified: 2010-02-12 04:00:29
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Oxfordian to the top of the Late/Upper Valanginian or 163.50000 to 136.40000 Ma

Collections (25 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Callovian164.7 - 161.2Poland D. moeschi (196450 196451)
Late/Upper Callovian164.7 - 161.2United Kingdom (Buckinghamshire) D. moeschi (196234)
Late/Upper Callovian164.7 - 161.2United Kingdom (Oxfordshire) D. moeschi (93214 196233)
Oxfordian163.5 - 157.3Algeria D. granulosus (45051)
Early/Lower Oxfordian - Middle Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7France D. granulosus (13147)
Late/Upper Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7France D. granulosus (62725 62727) D. moeschi (62728) D. sp. (13033 13115 13122)
Middle Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7France D. granulosus (163585) D. sp. (13057)
Middle Oxfordian - Late/Upper Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7France D. granulosus (13116) D. sp. (13055 13056)
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0Algeria D. dallonii (45080)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg) Dysaster granulosus (23902)
Late/Upper Valanginian140.2 - 136.4France D. elongatus (65189 65190 65191 65194 65197)