Eosphaeraster, Gale, 2021

Gale, Andrew Scott, 2021, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the ‘ football stars’ (Asteroidea, Sphaerasteridae), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19 (10), pp. 691-741 : 714

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/14772019.2021.1960911

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10883573

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scientific name

Eosphaeraster
status

gen. nov.

Genus Eosphaeraster View in CoL gen. nov.

Type species. Eosphaeraster amellagensis View in CoL sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Sphaerasterida in which the large proximal abactinals (pr, pir) carry two to six ramifying, candelabra-like papular notches on the corners only; more distal abactinals have numerous, evenly spaced vertical papular notches on all margins.

Derivation of name. Greek, Eo-, meaning dawn, as it is the oldest sphaerasterid.

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