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Two new early Asteroidea (Echinodermata) and early asteroid evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2020

Daniel B. Blake Open the ORCID record for Daniel B. Blake [Opens in a new window] ,
Forest J. Gahn  and
Thomas E. Guensburg
Daniel B. Blake
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Department of Geology, 3028 NHB, 1301 W Green St., Urbana, Illinois, 61801
Forest J. Gahn
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Brigham Young University—Idaho, Rexburg, Idaho, 83460
Thomas E. Guensburg
Affiliation:
IRC, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60605
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Abstract

Aerliceaster nexosus n. gen. n. sp. (Echinodermata), one of the oldest of known asteroids, is based on six specimens from the Floian (Early Ordovician) Garden City Formation of Idaho, and Kolataster perplexus n. gen. n. sp. is based on two specimens from the Sandian (Late Ordovician) Mifflin Formation of Illinois. Although the asterozoan skeleton is subdivided into few ossicular categories, evolutionary derivations of all the categories are not fully established, and therefore published evaluations differ. Beginning with phylogenetic work placing asteroid ancestry within the Somasteroidea together with the new taxa described herein, aspects of early asteroid morphology are evaluated and ambiguities in need of further study identified. Uncertainties are considered to be founded in rapid early asterozoan diversification and the scanty fossil record.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 94 , Issue 4 , July 2020 , pp. 734 - 747
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