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Article Dans Une Revue Annales De Paleontologie Année : 2016

New Early Paleozoic Asterozoa (Echinodermata) from the Armorican Massif, France, and the Western United States

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Seventeen specimens representing three of the four asterozoan classes (Stenuroidea, Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea) are recorded from Ordovician and Silurian strata of the western United States and northwest France; only the Somasteroidea is not represented. New taxa are: the stenuroids Lopidiasterjamisoni nov. gen. and sp. and Lehmannaster spinosus nov. gen. and sp.; the asteroids Meturaster belli nov. gen. and sp., Petraster crozonensis nov. sp., and Schuchertia sprinklei, nov. sp.; Lepidactis? sp. also is recognized. The Ophiuroidea is represented by Stenaster sp., Protaster sp., and an arm tip is of unknown familial and generic affinities. Class level assignments of all specimens are clear, and all but Lopidiaster are similar to earlier-known representatives of their respective classes; phylogenetic differentiation within the subphylum was well-established early in the Paleozoic. Ordovician asterozoans are both geographically widely distributed and morphologically clearly separable from modern asterozoans, yet overall structural similarities favor ecologic roles paralleling those known today. (C) 2016 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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Daniel B. Blake, Thomas E. Guensburg, Bertrand Lefebvre. New Early Paleozoic Asterozoa (Echinodermata) from the Armorican Massif, France, and the Western United States. Annales De Paleontologie, 2016, 102 (3), pp.161-181. ⟨10.1016/j.annpal.2016.08.002⟩. ⟨hal-02331386⟩
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