Faxelepas bruennichi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Verrucomorpha
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: Sessilia Subordo: Verrucomorpha

Stem-Group Verrucomorpha
Familiaː Pycnolepadidae
Genus: Faxelepas
Species: Faxelepas bruennichi

Name

• Faxelepas bruennichi (Withers, 1914): 181, new replacement name
  • Original genus: Pycnolepas
  • Geological age: Palaeocene (middle Danian), type; Cretaceous records are misidentified
  • Type locality: Faxe, Sjaelland, eastern Denmark, Tylocidaris bruennichi Zone
  • Types: holotype NHM I.16625, by Withers
  • Distribution: lower Palaeocene, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, southeast Netherlands, Crimea
  • ZooBank: 40DEAABE-A725-4138-8AC5-5AF737874CDC

Synonyms

• Pollicipes elegans Darwin, 1851: 76
  • Synonymized in Withers, 1914: 181, junior homonym
  • ZooBank: 25161E63-4CE4-4BFA-A47F-674DACDF1DDB

References

• Withers, T.H. 1914: Some Cretaceous and Tertiary cirripedes referred to Pollicipes. Annals and magazine of natural history, ser. 8 14(80): 167-206. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 181, as Pycnolepas bruennichi, new replacement name and redescription]

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• 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. 76, junior homonym]
• Gale, A.S. 2014. Origin and phylogeny of verrucomorph barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(9): 753–789. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2014.954409 Reference page.  [See p. 23, as Faxelepas bruennichi, generic re-assignment]
• Gale, A.S. & Vidovic, S.U. 2023. The origins of major sessile cirripede groups; a revision of Cretaceous Balanomorpha and Verrucomorpha. Journal of Systematic Paleontology 21(1)ː 2258370. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2023.2258370 Reference page.  [See p. 26, updated information]
• Jagt, J.W.M., Zonova, T.D. & Jagt-Yazykova, E.A. 2007. A review of the brachylepadomorph genus Pycnolepas, including the first record of an Early Cretaceous species from the Russian Far East. Zootaxa, 1545: 33–47. Reference page.  [See p. 40, discussion]
• 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.