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II.—On Lindstromaster and the Classification of the Palæasterids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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The classification of the Palæozoic starfishes has long been in chaos. The earlier palæontologists, who founded most of the known genera, made no attempt at a general classification or to indicate the relations between the Palæozoic and existing representatives of the Asteroidea. The first step towards progress was Bronn's division of the extinct genera into three groups—the Ophiurasteriæ (which may be left out of account as Ophiuroidea), the Encrinasteriæ, and the Asterias veræ.

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page 341 note 1 Falconer&Cautley's “Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis” (the figures of which are described in Falconer's “Pal. Memoirs,” 1868, vol. i, p. 452).

page 341 note 2 H. G. Bronn: Classen und Ord. Thierreichs, vol. ii (1860), pp. 287–8.

page 342 note 1 K. von Zittel: Handb. Palaeont., vol. i (1879), pp. 451–4.

page 342 note 2 B. Stürtz, “Neuer Beitr. Kennt. palaeoz. Seesterne”: Palæcontogr., vol. xxxvi (1890), pp. 246–7. “Über verst. und leb. Seest.”: Verh., naturh. Ver. preuss. Rheinl., ser. 5, vol. v (1893), pp. 76–7.

page 342 note 3 K. von Zittel: Handb. Palaeont., vol. i (1879), p. 454.

page 342 note 4 H. A. Nicholson: Man. Pal., vol. i (1889), p. 397.

page 342 note 5 W. P. Sladen, “Eeport on Asteroidea collected by ‘Challenger’”: Rep. Chall. Exp., Zool., vol. xxx, pp. xxviii and xxxiv.

page 343 note 1 Ed. Perrier, , “Contrib. ét. Stell. Atl. Nord”: Result. Camp. Sci. Albert I., fasc. xi (1896), pp. 1014.Google Scholar

page 343 note 2 Ibid., pp. 7, 15.

page 343 note 3 The references are given in the synonymy on p. 347

page 345 note 1 Asterias matutina, Hall, 1847: Pal. New York, vol. i, p. 91, pi. xxix, fig. 5. Palaaster matutina, Hall, 1867: 20th Reg. Rep., p. 283, pi. ix, fig. 2.

page 345 note 2 Salter: Cat. Foss. Mus. Pract. Geol., p. 30.

page 349 note 1 The references included in the above list show some of the limitations to which the genus must submit.

page 349 note 2 Salter and J. de C. Sowerby in 1843 recorded an asterid from the Arenig beds as Asterias primœva, but apparently it was never described (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. i, p. 8, and table i, opposite p. 21).

page 352 note 1 J. W. Salter, “New Palæoz. Starfishes”: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. xx (1857), pp. 325, 326. Also Cat. Cambr. and Sil. Foss. Cambridge, 1873, p. 163.

page 352 note 2 In Murchison's “Siluria,” 3rd ed., p. 248, fig. 56, No. 2.

page 352 note 3 R. Etheridge: Pres. Add., Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxvii (1881), Proc, p. 173.

page 352 note 4 De la Touche: Handb. Geol. Shrops., p. 34.

page 352 note 5 H. Woods: Cat. Type Foss. Woodw. Mus., p. 35.