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Fomalhautia hortensae
Taxonomy
Metopaster hortensae was named by Adkins and Winton (1920). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Texas Christian University, Holotype TCU 1083. Its type locality is Asteroidea, Reid locality 9, Dirks, Pawpaw fm, Fort Worth, which is in an Albian offshore shelf claystone in the Pawpaw Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Fomalhautia.
It was recombined as Fomalhautia hortensae by Blake and Reid (1998).
It was recombined as Fomalhautia hortensae by Blake and Reid (1998).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1920 | Metopaster hortensae Adkins and Winton pp. 46-47 figs. pl. 10 fig. 2-4 |
| 1928 | Metopaster hortensae Adkins p. 266 figs. pl. 20 fig. 16-17 |
| 1948 | Metopaster hortensae Durham and Roberts p. 432 |
| 1998 | Fomalhautia hortensae Blake and Reid p. 519 figs. 5.7-11 |
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†Fomalhautia hortensae Adkins and Winton 1920
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| D. B. Blake and R. Reid 1998 | Same as for the genus, by monotypy |