The Echinoid Directory
Contributed by Andrew Smith, June 2009
Pliotoxaster comanchei (Clark, in Clark & Twitchell, 1915, p. 95)
[1857 Toxaster elegans (Schumard); Conrad, p. 146, pl. 21, fig. 1.
1904 ?Epiaster cuevasensis de Loriol, p. 54, pl. 4, fig. 11.
1915 Hemiaster comanchei Clark; Clark & Twitchell, p. 95, pl. 46, fig. 2.
1924 Hemiaster (Mecaster) comanchei Lambert & Thiery, p. 502.
1928 Hemiaster (Mecaster) comanchei Clark; Adkins, p. 299.
1936 Macraster solitariensis Smiser, p. 472, pl. 65, figs 13, 15, 16, 18, 19.
1946 Hemiaster comanchei Clark; Cooke, p. 223, pl. 32, figs 6-7.
1987 Macraster solitariensis Smiser; Akers & Akers, p. 100.
1987 Palhemiaster comanchei (Clark); Akers & Akers, p. 108.
1999. Macraster solitariensis Smiser; Finsley, p. 110, photo 389.
1999. Palhemiaster comanchei (Clark); Finsley, p. 113, photo 402.]
| Distribution | Glen Rose Formation, Lower Albian, Lower Cretaceous, Texas, USA |
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| Type | USNM 103893 according to Cooke (1946) |
| Classification and/or Status | A species of Pliotoxaster |
| Remarks | Clark, W. B. and Twitchell, M. W. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. Monographs of the U. S. Geological Survey 54, 1-341. Cooke, C. W. 1946. Comanche echinoids. Journal of Paleontology 20, 193-238. |