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Terminasteridae Gale 2011
Creators
- 1. Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom. & School of the Environment, Geography and Geological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO 13 QL, United Kingdom.
- 2. Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, De Bosquetplein 6 - 7, 6211 KJ Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Description
Family Terminasteridae Gale, 2011
Terminasteridae Gale, 2011a: 92, fig. 8.
Diagnosis
Zorocallinids with extra-axial arm constructed of seven rows of ossicles organised with one row of radials, two rows of adradials, two rows of superomarginals and two rows of infromarginals; both marginal rows extend to arm tip.
Assigned genera
Alkaidia Blake & Reid, 1998 and Terminaster Hess, 1974.
Remarks
The family Terminasteridae is sister group to the Eocene–Recent Zoroasteridae Sladen, 1889, which is widespread in bathyal to abyssal depths of the present-day oceans.
Notes
Published as part of Gale, Andy S. & Jagt, John W. M., 2021, The fossil record of the family Benthopectinidae (Echinodermata, Asteroidea), a reappraisal, pp. 149-190 in European Journal of Taxonomy 755 on pages 182-183, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.755.1405, http://zenodo.org/record/5032970
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Terminasteridae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Forcipulatida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gale
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Terminasteridae Gale, 2011 sec. Gale & Jagt, 2021
References
- Gale A. S. 2011 a. The phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic Asteroidea (Neoasteroidea, Echinodermata). Special Papers in Palaeontology 85: 1 - 112.
- Blake D. B. & Reid R. III. 1998. Some Albian (Cretaceous) asteroids (Echinodermata) from Texas and their paleobiological implications. Journal of Paleontology 72 (3): 512 - 532. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 002233600002429 X