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Comptoniaster meyeri

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Taxonomy
Comptoniaster meyeri was named by Breton et al. (1994). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Centre des Sciences de la Terre, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, Holotype FSL. Its type locality is Echinodermata, Upper Kimmeridgian, Cerin, Southern French Jura , Ain, which is in a Kimmeridgian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in France. It was considered monophyletic by Breton et al. (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Comptoniaster meyeri Breton et al. pp. 50-54 figs. 1-3, pl. 1 fig. 1-4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Asterozoa()
RankNameAuthor
classAsteroidea
subclassAmbuloasteroidea
infraclassNeoasteroidea()
superorderValvatacea
orderValvatida
familyGoniasteridae
genusComptoniaster
speciesmeyeri

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.

Comptoniaster meyeri Breton et al. 1994
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
G. Breton et al. 1994Form stellate, interbrachial arc rounded and regularly concave. Twelve to fourteen pairs of marginal plates per half-arc. Superomarginal plates high with lateral faces converging abradially. Inferomarginal plates relatively low, twice wide as long in the interbrachial arc. Relative width of the marginal decreases in the arm and marginal plates are squared near the arm tip. External face of inferomarginal and interbrachial superomarginal weakly domed with ornament of fine, dense granule pits.