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

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scientific name

Pouzaster
status

gen. nov.

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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