Etcheslepas borealis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scalpelliformes
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Hexanauplia Subclassis: Thecostraca Infraclassis: Cirripedia Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Scalpelliformes

Familia: Pollicipedidae
Genus: †Etcheslepas
†Species: Etcheslepas borealis

Name

Etcheslepas borealis (Collins IN Arhus et al., 1990): 185

• Original genus: Zeugmatolepas?
• Geological age: Lower Cretaceous (indeterminate Boreal Berriasian-Valanginian)
• Type locality: borehole 7425/9-U-1, app. 60 m depth
• Types: Holotype PMO 116.475; paratypes 116.470-116.473, 116.478
• Distribution: Barents Sea and Hannover, Germany
• ZooBank: 7EB7DC81-689C-426C-985F-0EAAA0752285

References

• Århus, N.; Kelly, S.R.A; Collins, J.S.H.; Sandy, M.R. 1990: Systematic palaeontology and biostratigraphy of two Early Cretaceous condensed sections from the Barents Sea. Polar Research 8(2): 165–194. DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.1990.tb00383.xabstractarticle pdf Reference page.  [See p. 185, as Zeugmatolepas borealis, original description]

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• Gale, A.S. 2014. New cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the United Kingdom. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 125(4): 406–418. DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2014.07.003 Reference page.  [See p. 414, as Concinnalepas borealis, generic re-assignment]
• 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. 3, as Etcheslepas borealis, generic re-assignment]