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Epiaster ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4876450	https://www.gbif.org/species/4876450
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	33380	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=33380

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Spatangoida : Micrasteridae : Epiaster

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Spatangoida : Paleopneustidae : Epiaster

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
suborder	Paleopneustina	Agassiz 1904
superfamily	Paleopneustidea	Agassiz 1904
family	Paleopneustidae	Agassiz 1904
genus	Epiaster	d'Orbigny 1853

Scientific Name

Epiaster d'Orbigny, 1853

Name Published In

Pal. Franç., (1) Terr. crét., 6, 149

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Epiaster	genus	belongs to Paleopneustidae	stated without evidence	Grant and Hertlein, 1938
Epiaster	genus	belongs to Spatangoida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

125 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

83.6 - 72.1 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)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Epiaster africanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster alpinus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster angolensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster baconicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster besairiei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster blanckenhorni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster boipebensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster bosei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster brevipetalus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Epiaster caranoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster carvalhoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster chiapasensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster crassus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster dartoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster depressus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Epiaster distinctus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		8	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Epiaster fourtaui species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster guebhardi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster hemiasteriformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster hungaricus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster jeanneti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster meridanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster migliorinii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster miyakoanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster mortenseni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster ovalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster polygonus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster pseudodistinctus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster pulcher species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster punicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster renati species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster renfroae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster romani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster smellii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster somaliensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster thomasi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster toxasteroides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster trauthi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster trigonalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster variabilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster variosulcatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster varusensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster wenoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Epiaster whitei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Epiaster zonarius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Micraster distinctus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1938	Epiaster Grant and Hertlein p. 111
2002	Epiaster Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Grant U. S., Hertlein L. G. (1938) The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea, Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2, 1-225

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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

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

Pal. Franç., (1) Terr. crét., 6, 149 - 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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