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Tesselaster clarki
Taxonomy
Tesselaster clarki was named by Blake and Aronson (1998). Its type specimen is USNM 490429 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CV 86-05, Cross Valley, which is in a Ypresian prodelta siltstone in the La Meseta Formation of Antarctica.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1998 | Tesselaster clarki Blake and Aronson p. 343 figs. fig. 4.1-5 |
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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.
†Tesselaster clarki Blake and Aronson 1998
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| D. B. Blake and R. B. Aronson 1998 | Species of Tesselaster with bulbous marginals, comparatively few marginal granules; adambulacrals foreshortened; adambulacrals, actinal ossicles both with cylindrical spines. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Blake 1990, Aberhan 1992 | |||||