Bosquetlepas darwiniana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeolepadomorpha

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 Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Ordine: Archaeolepadomorpha

Familia: †Myolepadidae
Genus: †Bosquetlepas
Species: Bosquetlepas darwiniana

Name

• Bosquetlepas darwiniana (Bosquet, 1854): 10
  • Original genus: Mitella
  • Geological age: Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
  • Type locality: St. Pierre, Limbourg
  • Types: Lectotype scutum illustrated in Bosquet, 1854, pl. i, fig. 13, 14; whereabouts of Bosquet's types unknown
  • Distribution: Limbourg, Netherlands, Belgium, Ukraine, Crimea
  • ZooBank: D5AF623D-A3F9-4DFC-875C-5774100C69F7

Synonyms

• Pollicipes kacikalensis Karakasch, 1903: 10
  • Synonymized in Withers, 1935: 113

References

• Bosquet, J. 1854: Les crustacés fossiles du terrain crétacé du Limbourg. Verhandelingen uitgegeven door de Commis­sie belast met het vervaardigen eener geologische beschrijving en kaart van Nederland, 2. A.C. Krusemann, Haarlem. pp. 1-127. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 10, as Mitella darwiniana, original description]

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• Darwin, C. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 2: The Balanidae, The Verrucidae. BHL London: Ray Society. Reference page.  [See p. 637, as Pollicipes darwiniana]
• Gale, A.S. & Sørensen, A.M. 2015. Taxonomy and palaeoecology of thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from a Campanian rocky shoreline at Ivö Klack, southern Sweden. Cretaceous Research 54: 212–242. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2014.09.004 Reference page.  [See p. 217, as Bosquetlepas darwiniana, generic re-assignment]
• Karakasch, N.I. 1903. Les cirripedes du terrain cretace de la Crimee. Travaux Société impériale des naturalistes de St;-Pétersbourg 31(5): 1–18. Reference page.  [See p. 10]
• Withers, T.H. 1935: Catalog of fossil Cirripedia in the Department of Geology of the British Museum. Vol. 2, Cretaceous. London, British Museum, 433 p. Reference page.  [See p. 113, as Calantica (Scillaelepas) darwiniana, generic re-assignment, discussion]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Bosquetlepas darwiniana – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Bosquetlepas darwiniana.
• ION