Pouzaster, Gale, 2021

Gale, Andrew Scott, 2021, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the ‘ football stars’ (Asteroidea, Sphaerasteridae), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19 (10), pp. 691-741 : 721

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/14772019.2021.1960911
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F8991F09-B5FB-40EF-B4CC-474D925085B8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10883579
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B9207C41-9A69-FFE4-0E4D-FDEDFEAEFC5A
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pouzaster
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Genus Pouzaster View in CoL gen. nov.

Type species. Pouzaster pocknotata View in CoL sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Sphaerasterida in which the abactinal plates carry a sculpture of irregular pitting, arranged radially towards plate margins. Detailed plate arrangement unknown.

Remarks. The distinctive sculpture of the abactinals separates this genus from all other known sphaerasterids.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Echinodermata
Class	Asteroidea
Order	Valvatida
Family	Sphaerasteridae

Specimens

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