Terminasteridae Gale, 2011

Gale, Andy S. & Jagt, John W. M., 2021, The fossil record of the family Benthopectinidae (Echinodermata, Asteroidea), a reappraisal, European Journal of Taxonomy 755, pp. 149-190 : 182-183

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2021.755.1405

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5036856

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F160A367-7157-FF90-FDB5-71D7FC1921DF

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scientific name

Terminasteridae Gale, 2011
status

 

Family Terminasteridae Gale, 2011

Terminasteridae Gale, 2011a: 92 , fig. 8.

Diagnosis

Zorocallinids with extra-axial arm constructed of seven rows of ossicles organised with one row of radials, two rows of adradials, two rows of superomarginals and two rows of infromarginals; both marginal rows extend to arm tip.

Assigned genera

Alkaidia Blake & Reid, 1998 and Terminaster Hess, 1974 View in CoL .

Remarks

The family Terminasteridae is sister group to the Eocene–Recent Zoroasteridae Sladen, 1889 , which is widespread in bathyal to abyssal depths of the present-day oceans.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Asteroidea

Order

Forcipulatida

Family

Terminasteridae

Loc

Terminasteridae Gale, 2011

Gale, Andy S. & Jagt, John W. M. 2021
2021
Loc

Terminasteridae

Gale A. S. 2011: 92
2011
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