WoRMS source details

Smith, A.B. & Wright, C.W. 2012. British Cretaceous echinoids. Part 9, Atelostomata, 2. Spatangoida (2). Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society, 166/639, 635-754.
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Gibbaster Gauthier, 1887 † accepted as Micraster (Gibbaster) Gauthier, 1887 † (status source)
Isomicraster Lambert, 1901 † accepted as Micraster (Gibbaster) Gauthier, 1887 † (status source)
Micraster (Gibbaster) Gauthier, 1887 † (status source)
Micraster (Gibbaster) norfolkensis Smith & Wright, 2012 † (original description)
Micraster corbovis Forbes in Dixon, 1850 † accepted as Roweaster corbovis (Forbes in Dixon, 1850) † (basis of record)
Micraster cor-bovis Forbes in Dixon, 1850 † accepted as Micraster corbovis Forbes in Dixon, 1850 † accepted as Roweaster corbovis (Forbes in Dixon, 1850) † (basis of record)
Micraster leskei d'Orbigny, 1855 † (redescription)
Micraster leskei var. joviniacensis Lambert in Lambert & Thiéry, 1924 † accepted as Roweaster joviniacensis (Lambert in Lambert & Thiéry, 1924) † (basis of record)
Micraster Sanctae Maurae Gauthier, 1886 † accepted as Micraster sanctaemaurae Gauthier, 1886 † accepted as Roweaster sanctaemaurae (Gauthier, 1886) † (basis of record)
Micraster sanctaemaurae Gauthier, 1886 † accepted as Roweaster sanctaemaurae (Gauthier, 1886) † (status source)
Micraster subglobosus Moskvin & Poslavskaya in Moskvin, 1969 † accepted as Roweaster corbovis (Forbes in Dixon, 1850) † (basis of record)
Pseudananchys speetonensis Smith & Wright, 2012 † (original description)
Roweaster Smith & Wright, 2012 † (original description)
Roweaster corbovis (Forbes in Dixon, 1850) † (new combination reference)
Roweaster joviniacensis (Lambert in Lambert & Thiéry, 1924) † (new combination reference)
Roweaster sanctaemaurae (Gauthier, 1886) † (new combination reference)
Roweasterinae Drummond, 1985 † (status source)
Paratype BGS GSM BGS Zn4415, geounit England, identified as Micraster (Gibbaster) norfolkensis Smith & Wright, 2012
Paratype BMNH E10544, geounit England, identified as Micraster (Gibbaster) norfolkensis Smith & Wright, 2012
Paratype BMNH E10545, geounit England, identified as Micraster (Gibbaster) norfolkensis Smith & Wright, 2012
Holotype BMNH E14429, geounit England, identified as Pseudananchys speetonensis Smith & Wright, 2012
Paratype BMNH E14430, geounit England, identified as Pseudananchys speetonensis Smith & Wright, 2012
Holotype BMNH E19768, geounit England, identified as Micraster (Gibbaster) norfolkensis Smith & Wright, 2012
Holotype BMNH E30157, geounit England, identified as Roweaster corbovis (Forbes in Dixon, 1850)
Paratype BMNH EE2399, geounit England, identified as Micraster (Gibbaster) norfolkensis Smith & Wright, 2012
 Authority

The name M. leskei has been traditionally attributed to Des Moulins, but Smith & Wright (2012: p. 653) pointed out ... [details]

 Diagnosis

A species of Gibbaster with meridoplacous plating in interambulacrum 1; labral plate short and disjunct from sternal ... [details]

 Diagnosis

A conical species of Pseudananchys with a small, elongate apical disc, faint anterior sulcus at the ambitus and ... [details]

 Diagnosis

Thin shelled; interporiferous areas of paired ambulacra smooth; periplastronal areas smooth to faintly sandy. Labral ... [details]

 Etymology

Refers to the type region (Norfolk). [details]

 Etymology

Refers to the type loccality (Speeton). [details]

 Etymology

After the type locality. [details]

 Fossil range

Belemnitella mucronata Zone, upper Campanian (Holotype and Belemnella lanceolata Zone, lower Maastrichtian (Paratypes) [details]

 Type locality

Harford Bridges (Holotype) and Trimingham (Paratypes), Norfolk, England [details]

 Type locality

Speeton, Yorkshire, England [details]

 Type locality

Joigny, Le Calvaire, France [details]

 Type locality

Sainte Maure, near Troyes, Couvrot, France [details]

 Type material

Holotype: MNHN Paris, Lambert collection, illustrated in Lambert & Thiéry (1924: pl. 12, fig. 10). [details]

 Type material

Types not traced by Smith & Wright (2012), but presumed to be in the Gauthier collection (2 specimens) and the ... [details]