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Noviaster polyplax

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Taxonomy
Noviaster polyplax was named by Hess (1972). Its type specimen is Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Hess's collection Holotype A260 and is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Echinoderms, Oberer Hauptrogenstein, Late Bajocian, Schinznach, Aargau, which is in a Bajocian open shallow subtidal grainstone/marl in Switzerland.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1972Noviaster polyplax Hess pp. 11-14 figs. fig. 4-5; pl. 1, fig. 3-5; pl. 3, fig. 1

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

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.

Noviaster polyplax Hess 1972
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
H Hess 1972Large species, with a large disc and relatively short, triangular arms. Interbrachial arc rounded. Actinolateral and abactinal fields tesselate. Carinal larger than the other abactinal plates. Marginal plates relatively small, squarish, with an external face covered with rounded granules. Lateral faces of the marginal flatened. Adambulacrals with four short conical spines. Pedicellariae unknown.