Stramentum praecursor

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeolepadomorpha

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 Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Ordine: Archaeolepadomorpha

Familia: †Stramentidae
Genus: Stramentum
Species: Stramentum praecursor

Name

Stramentum praecursor Gale, 2015: 31

• Geological age: Cretaceous
• Epibiont: found on ammonoid Acanthoceras rhotomagense
• Type locality: Holotype locality uncertain, lower Chalk, Kent or Sussex; paratype locality Glynde, near Lewes, Sussex, UK
• Types: Holotype SM B.8935, complete specimen illustrated in Withers, 1935, pl. 40, fig. 1; paratype BMNH 00686
• Distribution: UK (Sussex, Kent) and Normandy, France
• ZooBank: 202C3F39-AE5E-436F-AB5E-A3754E532BD4

References

• Gale, A.S. 2015. Origin and phylogeny of the Cretaceous thoracican cirripede family Stramentidae. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(8): 653–702. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2015.1091149Reference page. 
• 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.  [Holotype illustration only, as Stramentum pulchellum]