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Stenaster
Description | Stenaster is an extinct genus of brittle stars that lived from the Ordovician to the Silurian. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenaster, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rank | genus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Ophiuroidea : Stenasteridae : Stenaster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Scientific Name | Stenaster Billings, 1858 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name Published In | Geol. Surv. Canada, org. Remains, Dec. 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenaster |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Stenaster confluens ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
Uraster obtusus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Geol. Surv. Canada, org. Remains, Dec. 3 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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!
Ontario, Canada