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Mecaster ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4871373	https://www.gbif.org/species/4871373
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	86446	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=86446

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Spatangoida : Hemiasteridae : Mecaster

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Spatangoida : Hemiasteridae : Mecaster

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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	Echinozoa	von Zittel 1895
class	Echinoidea
subclass	Euechinoidea	Bronn 1860
superorder	Acroechinoidea
-	Carinacea	Kroh and Smith 2010
-	Irregularia
-	Atelostomata	von Zittel 1879
order	Spatangoida	Agassiz 1840
family	Hemiasteridae	Clark 1917
genus	Mecaster	Pomel 1883

Scientific Name

Mecaster Pomel, 1883

Name Published In

Pomel, A. 1883. Classification méthodique et Genera des Échinides vivantes et fossiles. Thèses présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le Grade de Docteur ès Sciences Naturelles 503, Adolphe Jourdan, Alger, 131 pp.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mecaster	subgenus	belongs to Hemiaster	stated without evidence	Fischer, 1966
Mecaster	genus	belongs to Hemiasteridae	stated with evidence	Smith, 1991
Mecaster	subgenus	belongs to Hemiaster	stated with evidence	Berndt, 2003
Mecaster	genus	belongs to Spatangoida	stated with evidence	Smith, 2006
Mecaster	genus	belongs to Hemiasteridae	stated without evidence	Manso and Andrade, 2008
Mecaster	genus	belongs to Hemiasteridae	stated with evidence	Smith, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

105 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Spatangoida)

Motility

slow-moving (based on Spatangoida)

Vision

limited (based on Echinoidea)

Diet

deposit feeder, detritivore (based on Spatangoida)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Spatangoida)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Spatangoida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. Pomel. 1883. Classification méthodique des échinides vivants et fossiles. Adolphe Jourdan, Alger

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Hemiaster (Mecaster) luynesi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hemiaster (Mecaster) syriacus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		12	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hemiaster batnensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hemiaster fourneli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hemiaster luynesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Holaster syriacus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mecaster africanus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mecaster arnonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mecaster batnensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		91	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mecaster fourneli ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		76	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mecaster orbignyanus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mecaster pseudofourneli ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		12	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mecaster victoris ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1883	Mecaster Pomel p. 42
1966	Hemiaster (Mecaster) Fischer p. U559
1991	Mecaster Smith p. 56
1995	Mecaster Smith p. 236
2003	Hemiaster (Mecaster) Berndt p. 84
2006	Mecaster Smith
2008	Mecaster Manso and Andrade p. 322
2010	Mecaster Smith p. 384

References

Pomel A. Classification méthodique des échinides vivants et fossiles, Adolphe Jourdan, Alger, 1-131

Fischer A. G. (1966) Spatangoids, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part U. Echinodermata. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Boulder and Lawrence 3 2, U543-U628

Smith A. B. (1991) Taxonomic descriptions, in Cretaceous echinoids from north-eastern Brazil, Fossils and Strata 31, 1-88

Smith A. B. (1995) Late Campanian-Maastrichtian echinoids from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology Series) 51, 121-240

Berndt R. (2003) Cenomanian echinoids from Southern Jordan, N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Mh 2003 2, 73-90

Manso C. L. C., Andrade E. J. (2008) Equinoides do Turoniano (Cretaceo Superior) de Sergipe, Brasil, São Paulo, UNESP, Geociencias 27 3, 319-327

Smith A. B. (2010) The Cretaceous Bagh Formation, India: a Gondwanan window onto Turonian shallow-water echinoid faunas, Cretaceous Research 31, 368-386 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2010.05.002

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

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Classif. méth. Echin. - 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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