Balanus chisletianus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Sessilia Subordo: Balanomorpha Infraordo: Neobalanoformes Superfamilia: Balanoidea

Familia: Balanidae
Subfamilia: Balaninae
Genus: Balanus
Species: †Balanus chisletianus

Name

Balanus chisletianus Sowerby In Brown & Sowerby, 1859: 134

• Insufficiently described to permit genus identification; also Eocene age reported does not allow for advanced balanids
• Original status: valid species
• Geological age: ?Eocene, England
• Type locality: Chislet, England, sand pit near Up Road
• Types:
• ZooBank: 162F951F-B46E-490E-9BB3-FD5F83EB365A

References

• Brown, J.; Sowerby, G.B. 1859: On the Occurence of some Tertiary Fossils at Grove Ferry, near Canterbury, Kent. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 15: 133–136. DOI: 10.1144/GSL.JGS.1859.015.01-02.31BHL Reference page.  [See p. 134]
• Newman, W.A.; Ross, E. 1976: Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page.  [See p. 69]
• Pitombo, F.B. 2004: Phylogenetic analysis of the Balanidae (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha). Zoologica Scripta 33(3): 261–276. DOI: 10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00145.x Reference page.  [See p. 274]