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Buterminaster elegans
Taxonomy
Buterminaster elegans was named by Blake and Zinsmeister (1988). It is not extant. Its type specimen is National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology, Holotype USNM 40. It is the type species of Buterminaster.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1988 | Buterminaster elegans Blake and Zinsmeister pp. 494-495 figs. 3.2-6 |
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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.
†Buterminaster elegans Blake and Zinsmeister 1988
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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D. B. Blake and W. J. Zinsmeister 1988 | A Goniasterid with few tabulate, partially bare abactinals, much enlarged terminals forming the entire arm tip and encompassing distal ambulacral column ossicles, a lateral fringe of spinelets on the inferomarginals and terminals, and spines on the superomarginals and terminals |
Measurements
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Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
References: Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004, Blake 1990 |