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Altairia wintoni

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Ophidiasteridae

Taxonomy
Comptonia wintoni was named by Adkins (1920). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Texas Christian University, Holotype TCU 1077.

It was recombined as Altairia wintoni by Blake and Reid (1998) and Gale (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Comptonia wintoni Adkins pp. 97-99 figs. pl. 7 fig. 4-5
1928Comptonia wintoni Adkins p. 266 figs. pl. 20 fig. 18
1948Comptonia wintoni Durham and Roberts p. 432
1998Altairia wintoni Blake and Reid pp. 523-525 figs. 5.12, 5.16-17, 6.7-8
2011Altairia wintoni Gale p. 60

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Asterozoa()
RankNameAuthor
classAsteroidea
subclassAmbuloasteroidea
infraclassNeoasteroidea()
superorderValvatacea
orderValvatida
familyOphidiasteridae
genusAltairia
specieswintoni()

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.

Altairia wintoni Adkins 1920
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
D. B. Blake and R. Reid 1998Same as for the genus, by monotypy
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitef
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinef
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: omnivoref
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterf
Dispersal 2: planktonicf
Created: 2007-10-02 04:06:31
Modified: 2009-10-10 11:01:12
Source: f = family, c = class, p = phylum
References: Blake 1990, Aberhan et al. 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range: Late/Upper Albian or 105.30000 to 99.60000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6USA (Texas) Altairia wintoni (59871 59875 59878)