Terminasteridae Gale 2011

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. 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.

Published as part of Gale, Andy S. & Jagt, John W. M., 2021, The fossil record of the family Benthopectinidae (Echinodermata, Asteroidea), a reappraisal, pp. 149-190 in European Journal of Taxonomy 755 on pages 182-183, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.755.1405, http://zenodo.org/record/5032970

Related Organizations

Natural History Museum Maastricht
Netherlands
Natural History Museum
United Kingdom
University of Portsmouth
United Kingdom

Keywords

Asteroidea, Terminasteridae, Animalia, Biodiversity, Forcipulatida, Taxonomy, Echinodermata

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