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Taeniaster ✝

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Taeniaster sp.

Ontario, Canada

Taeniaster sp.

Swatara State Park, Union Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA

Taeniaster sp.

Ontario, Canada

Taeniaster sp.

Swatara State Park, Union Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA

Taeniaster sp.

Ontario, Canada

Taeniaster sp.

Swatara State Park, Union Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9525167	https://www.gbif.org/species/9525167
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	31543	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=31543

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Ophiuroidea : Euryalida : Euryalidae : Taeniaster

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Ophiuroidea : Oegophiurida : Protasteridae : Taeniaster

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

doubtful

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata	Klein 1754
subphylum	Asterozoa	von Zittel 1895
class	Ophiuroidea	Gray 1840
order	Oegophiurida	Matsumoto 1915
suborder	Lysophiurina
family	Protasteridae	Miller 1889
genus	Taeniaster	Billings 1858

Scientific Name

Taeniaster Billings, 1858

Name Published In

Canad. Org. Rem., Dec. 3

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Taeniaster	genus	belongs to Taeniasteridae	stated with evidence	Gregory, 1899
Taeniaster	genus	belongs to Protasteridae	stated with evidence	Schuchert, 1915
Taeniaster	genus	belongs to Protasteridae	stated without evidence	Owen, 1965
Taeniaster	genus	belongs to Protasteridae	stated with evidence	Spencer and Wright, 1966
Taeniaster	genus	belongs to Oegophiurida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Taeniaster	genus	subjective synonym of Protaster	stated with evidence	Dean Shackleton, 2005
Taeniaster	genus	belongs to Protasteridae	stated with evidence	Hunter et al., 2007

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

466 - 461 Ma
Middle Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

409 - 403 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Ophiuroidea)

Motility

slow-moving (based on Ophiuroidea)

Vision

blind (based on Ophiuroidea)

Diet

detritivore, suspension feeder (based on Ophiuroidea)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Ophiuroidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. Billings. 1858. On the Asteridae of the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada. Figures and descriptions of Canadian organic remains. Geological Survey of Canada 3:75-85

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Alepidaster flexuosus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Alepidaster granuliferus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Alepidaster miamiensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Budenbachia grandis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palaeocoma spinosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palaeophiomyxa grandis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Protaster flexuosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Protaster granuliferus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Protaster miamiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Taeniaster armoricanus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Taeniaster elegans ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Taeniaster ibericus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	466 Ma Middle Ordovician	466 Ma Middle Ordovician
Taeniaster schohariae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Taeniaster spinosus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1858	Taeniaster Billings p. 80
1872	Alepidaster Meek p. 275
1878	Protasterina Ulrich p. 95
1899	Taeniaster Gregory
1899	Palaeophiomyxa Stürtz p. 202
1915	Taeniaster Schuchert pp. 216-219 figs. pl. 36 figs. 1-3
1915	Alepidaster Schuchert pp. 228-230

Year	Name and Author
1915	Palaeophiomyxa Schuchert p. 234
1934	Taeniaster Spencer pp. 483-488
1957	Palaeophiomyxa Lehmann pp. 46-47
1965	Taeniaster Owen p. 550
1966	Taeniaster Spencer and Wright p. U87
2002	Taeniaster Sepkoski, Jr.
2007	Taeniaster Hunter et al. p. 80

References

Billings E. On the Asteridae of the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada. Figures and descriptions of Canadian organic remains., Geological Survey of Canada 3, 75-85

Gregory J. W. On Lindstromaster and the classification of Palaeasterids, Geological Magazine 6, 341-354

Stürtz E. Ein weiter Beitrag zur Kenntnis paläozoischer Asteroiden, Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen vereins der preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 56, 176-240

Schuchert C. (1915) Revision of Paleozoic Stelleroidea with special reference to North American Asteroidea, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88, 1-311

Spencer W. K. (1934) A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa., Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 1933 9, 437-494

Lehmann W.M. (1957) Die Asterozoen in den Dachschifern des rheinischen Unterdevons., Abhandlungen des Hessischen Landeshamtes für Bodenforchung 21, 1-160

Spencer W. K., Wright C.W. (1966) Asterozoans, Moore R.C. ed, Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Echinodermata, University of Kansas Press and the Geological Society of America 3 1, U4-U107

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Hunter A. W., Lefebvre B., et al (2007) A mixed ophiuroid–stylophoran assemblage (Echinodermata) from the\r\nMiddle Ordovician (Llandeilian) of western Brittany, France, Palaeozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations: Climatic and Evolutionary Controls. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 275, 71-86

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Canad. Org. Rem., Dec. 3 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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