Cretiscalpellum simplex

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Calanticomorpha

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata 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: Cretiscalpellum simplex

Name

• Cretiscalpellum simplex (Darwin, 1851): 39
  • Original genus: Scalpellum
  • Stratigraphic and geographic range: Cretaceous (Aptian); known only from holotype
  • Type locality: Lower Greensand Group, Hythe Formation, Maidstone, Kent UK
  • Typus: Holotype NMV PI 33334
  • ZooBank: B4384632-BAB4-4702-9B72-5F5E4B9FDEFF

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. 39, original description as Scalpellum simplex]

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• 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. 111, as Cretiscalpellum simplex, generic re-assignment; supplementary description]
• 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. 21, discussion and generic re-assignment as Scalpellum (Arcoscalpellum) simplex]