Titanolepas tuberculatum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scalpelliformes
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: Scalpelliformes

Familia: †Titanolepadidae
Genus: †Titanolepas
Species: Titanolepas tuberculatum

Name

• Titanolepas tuberculata (Darwin, 1851): 43
  • Original genus: Scalpellum
  • Stratigraphic and geographic distribution: Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian), Cambridge, Kent, Bedfordshire, UK
  • Type locality: Chalk detritus, Charing Kent
  • Typus: Harris Museum, now in BMNH carina I.14657, scutum I.14659, tergum I.14658 on card id'd by Darwin; carina selected as lectotype by Withers, 1913: 944
  • ZooBank: B2DFCE91-D520-43A2-B2A9-0B08E6FEA26E

References

• Darwin, C. 1851. A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain. Paleontographical Society, London. 88 pp. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 43, original description as Scalpellum tuberculatum]

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• 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. 220, discussion]
• Withers, T.H. 1913: Cirripeds from the Cenomanian Chalk of Cambridge. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913(3/4): 937-948. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 943, as Calantica (Titanolepas) tuberculata, redescription, synonymy]
• 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. 130, discussion]