Cretiscalpellum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Calanticomorpha

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Ordine: Calanticomorpha

Familia: †Cretiscalpellidae
Genus: †Cretiscalpellum
Species (16†): †C. bronni – †C. glabrum – †C. hardeni – †C. longissimum – †C. macrum – †C. mutterlosei – †C. naidini – †C. obtusum – †C. paucistriatum – †C. robaszynskii – †C. semiporcatum – †C. sharapovi – †C. simplex – †C. subcarinatum – †C. unguis – †C. vallum – †C. venustum –

Name

• Cretiscalpellum Withers, 1922: 374
  • Geological range: Cretaceous; uppermost Hauterivian - Maastrichtian
  • Original status: valid subgenus of Scalpellum
  • Type species: Pollicipes unguis Sowerby, 1836, by original designation
  • ZooBank: 138A3E82-5FB4-4BB6-AEE1-52BDED026EAF

References

• Withers, T.H. 1922. The morphology of some Cretaceous cirripedes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 9, 9(52): 368–379. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 374, as Scalpellum (Cretiscalpellum)]

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• Buckeridge, J.S. 1983. Fossil barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin (50). Reference page.  [See p. 41, Australian occurrences, discussion]
• Chan, B.K-K., Dreyer, N., Gale, A.S., Glenner, H., Ewers-Saucedo, C., Perez-Losada, M., Kolbasov, G.A., Crandall, K.A. & Høeg, J.T. 2021. The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193(3): 789–846. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160 Reference page.  [See p. 41
• Gale, A.S. 2019. Thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) of Hannover, northern Germany. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 130(6): 659–672. DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.03.002 Reference page.  [See p. 663, list of species]
• Gale, A.S. 2025. British Fossil Cirripedia. Part 2. Calanticomorpha, Scalpellomorpha. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 179(671): 105–193. DOI: 10.1080/0269345.2025.2494375 Reference page.  [See p. 106]
• Gale, A.S., Jagt, J.W.M. & Goolaerts, S. 2021. Cirripedes (Thoracica, Crustacea) from the Maastrichtian of Kalaat Selan, Tunisia. Cretaceous Research, 118: 104650. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104650 Reference page.  [additional species, list of species]
• Sowerby, J.C. 1836. Descriptive notes respecting the shells figured in Plates XI–XXIII Appendix A: 335–348. In: Fitton, W.H. Observations on some of the strata between the Chalk and the Oxford Oolite in the south-east of England. Transactions of the Geological Society of London ser. 2, 4: 103–389. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 335, description of type species]
• 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.