Dendraster gibbsii
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Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Subclass: Euechinoidea
Order: Clypeasteroida
Family: Dendrasteridae
Genus: Dendraster (Agassiz and Desor, 1847)
Species: Dendraster gibbsii (Rémond, 1863)
Four specimens with all five ambulacra preserved and off-centred on the aboral surface. Apical system is visible but faint. Peristome is well-defined in one specimen and faint/weathered in the other three specimens. Grooves can be seen in two specimens.
Specifications
| Object name | Dendraster gibbsii |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2019-0456 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Echinozoa Class: Echinoidea Subclass: Euechinoidea |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Cenozoic Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene to Pliocene Age: Late Miocene to Late Pliocene |
| Numeric age | 7 - 2 Mya |
| Origin | Ventura County, California, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 4 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- L. Agassiz and P. J. E. Desor. 1847. Catalogue raisonné des familles, des genres, et des espèces de la classe des échinodermes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Troisième Série, Zoologie 7-8