Psammaster davidsoni ( de Loriol and Pellat, 1874 )

Fau, Marine, Villier, Loïc, Ewin, Timothy A. M. & Gale, Andrew S., 2020, A revision of Ophidiaster davidsoni de Loriol and Pellat 1874 from the Tithonian of Boulogne (France) and its transfer from the Valvatacea to the new forcipulatacean genus Psammaster gen. nov., Fossil Record 23 (2), pp. 141-149 : 142-143

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-23-141-2020
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11617220
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F635B046-FF91-FF99-FCB1-28F6FE42A0E0
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Psammaster davidsoni ( de Loriol and Pellat, 1874 )
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Treatment

Psammaster davidsoni ( de Loriol and Pellat, 1874) View in CoL

Derivation of name

The prefix psammos, Ancient Greek for “sand”, was chosen in reference to the sandstone formation in which the type species was found.

Diagnosis

As for type species, by monotypy.

Nomenclatural acts

This publication and its nomenclatural acts were registered at ZooBank on 29 June 2020, prior to publication.

The LSID of the publication is urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6385EBA2-F315-4F69-8522-9AAA7E8EB9C4 ; that of the new genus is urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:9573D478-3053-4A18-8C8B-FF95A8024708 .

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No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Echinodermata
Class	Asteroidea
SuperOrder	Forcipulatacea
Order	Forcipulatida
Genus	Psammaster

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