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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	31386	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=31386

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Asteroidea : Euaxosida : Palasterinidae : Palasterina

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata	Klein 1754
subphylum	Asterozoa	von Zittel 1895
class	Asteroidea	de Blainville 1830
order	Euaxosida	Blake 2018
family	Palasterinidae	Gregory 1899
genus	Palasterina	McCoy 1851

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Palasterina	genus	belongs to Palasterinidae	stated with evidence	Gregory, 1899
Palasterina	genus	belongs to Eoactinidae	stated with evidence	Spencer, 1922
Palasterina	genus	belongs to Palasterinidae	stated with evidence	Withers and Keble, 1934
Palasterina	genus	belongs to Palasterinidae	stated without evidence	Owen, 1965
Palasterina	genus	belongs to Palasterinidae	stated with evidence	Spencer and Wright, 1966
Palasterina	genus	belongs to Hemizonida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Palasterina	genus	belongs to Palasterinidae	stated with evidence	Dean Shackleton, 2005
Palasterina	genus	belongs to Palasterinidae	stated without evidence	Blake, 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

453 - 445 Ma
Late/Upper Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

409 - 403 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Echinodermata)

Motility

slow-moving (based on Asteroidea)

Vision

limited (based on Asteroidea)

Diet

carnivore (based on Asteroidea)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Asteroidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. McCoy. 1851. In Sedgwick A. & McCoy F. 1851-1857. A systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils in the geological Museum of the University of Cambridge. London and Cambridge

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Palasterina antiqua ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	439 Ma Silurian	421 Ma Silurian
Palasterina flemingtonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Palasterina follmanni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Palasterina marginata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Palasterina maucheri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Palasterina orchilocalia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	433 Ma Silurian	433 Ma Silurian
Palasterina stachi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Palasterina taenibrachiata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Palasterina tilmanni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Palasterina umbonata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1851	Palasterina McCoy p. 59
1890	Pseudopalasterina Stürtz pp. 229, 224
1899	Lindstromaster Gregory pp. 344, 346
1899	Palaeasterina Gregory p. 349
1899	Hisingeraster Stürtz pp. 224, 225
1915	Lindstromaster Schuchert pp. 148-149
1915	Palasterina Schuchert pp. 150-153
1915	Pseudopalasterina Schuchert p. 156
1922	Palasterina Spencer pp. 219-223

Year	Name and Author
1934	Palasterina Withers and Keble p. 230
1957	Palasterina Lehmann p. 100
1965	Palasterina Owen p. 562
1966	Palasterina Spencer and Wright p. U45
2002	Palasterina Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Palasterina Dean Shackleton p. 71
2007	Palasterina Herringshaw et al. p. 1225
2018	Palasterina Blake

References

McCoy F. , In Sedgwick A. & McCoy F. 1851-1857. A systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils in the geological Museum of the University of Cambridge. London and Cambridge, 1-611

Stürtz B. Neuer Beitrag zur Kenntniss paläozoischer Seesterne., Palaeontographica 36, 203-247

Gregory J. W. On Lindstromaster and the classification of Palaeasterids, Geological Magazine 6, 341-354

Stürtz E. Ein weiter Beitrag zur Kenntnis paläozoischer Asteroiden, Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen vereins der preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 56, 176-240

Schuchert C. (1915) Revision of Paleozoic Stelleroidea with special reference to North American Asteroidea, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88, 1-311

Spencer W. K. (1922) A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa., Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 1920 5, 197-236

Lehmann W.M. (1957) Die Asterozoen in den Dachschifern des rheinischen Unterdevons., Abhandlungen des Hessischen Landeshamtes für Bodenforchung 21, 1-160

Spencer W. K., Wright C.W. (1966) Asterozoans, Moore R.C. ed, Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Echinodermata, University of Kansas Press and the Geological Society of America 3 1, U4-U107

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Dean Shackleton J. (2005) Skeletal homologies, phylogeny and classification of the earliest asterozoan echinoderms, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 3 1, 29-114

Herringshaw L. G., Thomas A.T., et al (2007) Starfish diversity in the Wenlock of England., Palaeontology 50 5, 1211-1229 doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00699.x

Blake D. B. (2018) Toward a History of the Paleozoic Asteroidea (Echinodermata), Bulletins of American Paleontology 394, 1-96

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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