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Hudsonasteridae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4870971	https://www.gbif.org/species/4870971
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	94460	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=94460

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Asteroidea : Hudsonasteridae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
family	Hudsonasteridae	Schuchert 1914

Scientific Name

Hudsonasteridae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Hudsonasteridae	family	belongs to Promopalaeasteracea	stated with evidence	Schuchert, 1915
Hudsonasteridae	family	belongs to Asteroidea	stated with evidence	Spencer, 1916
Hudsonasteridae	family	belongs to Phanerozonia	stated without evidence	Withers and Keble, 1934
Hudsonasteridae	family	belongs to Pustulosa	stated without evidence	Owen, 1965
Hudsonasteridae	family	belongs to Palaeasteraceae	stated with evidence	Spencer and Wright, 1966
Hudsonasteridae	family	belongs to Pustulosida	stated with evidence	Blake, 1989
Hudsonasteridae	family	belongs to Bimarginalina	stated without evidence	Webster et al., 1999
Hudsonasteridae	family	belongs to Asteroidea	stated with evidence	Dean Shackleton, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

470 - 461 Ma
Middle Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

365 - 361 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Echinodermata)

Motility

slow-moving

Vision

limited (based on Asteroidea)

Diet

detritivore

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Ecospace Comments

ECOSPACE CODE: 322.

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Asteroidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. Schuchert. 1914. Fossilium Catalogus. 1: Animalia, pars 3, Stelleroidea palaeozoica. W. Junk, Berlin

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Coccasterinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		1	421 Ma Silurian	421 Ma Silurian
Hudsonasterinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Silurasterinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Coccaster ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	421 Ma Silurian	421 Ma Silurian
Doliaster ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	433 Ma Silurian	433 Ma Silurian
Girvanaster ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Hudsonaster ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		45	470 Ma Middle Ordovician	365 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Mesopalaeaster genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Siluraster ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	433 Ma Silurian

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Protopalaeasteridae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Echinodermata : Asteroidea : Protopalaeasteridae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1914	Hudsonasteridae Schuchert
1915	Hudsonasteridae Schuchert p. 53
1916	Hudsonasteridae Spencer pp. 68-69
1934	Hudsonasteridae Withers and Keble p. 222
1962	Protopalaeasteridae Kesling p. 936
1965	Hudsonasteridae Owen p. 567

Year	Name and Author
1966	Hudsonasteridae Spencer and Wright p. U50
1989	Hudsonasteridae Blake p. 212
1999	Hudsonasteridae Webster et al. p. 476
2005	Hudsonasteridae Dean Shackleton p. 100
2007	Hudsonasteridae Herringshaw et al. p. 1213

References

Schuchert C. (1914) Fossilium Catalogus. 1: Animalia, pars 3, Stelleroidea palaeozoica, W. Junk, Berlin, 1-53

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. (1916) A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa, Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 1915 2, 57-108

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

Blake D. B. (1989) Asteroidea: functional morphology, classification and phylogeny, In M. Jangoux & J.M. Lawrence (Eds.) Echinoderm studies, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam 3, 179-223

Webster G. D., Hafley D. J., et al (1999) Crinoids and Stelleroids (Echinodermata) from the Broken Rib Member, Dyer Formation (Late Devonian, Famennian) of the White River Plateau, Colorado, Journal of Paleontology 73 3, 461-486

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

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Herringshaw, L. G.; Thomas, A. T.; Smith, M. P. (2007). Starfish diversity in the Wenlock of England. Palaeontology. 50(5): 1211-1229. - 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!

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