Titanolepas

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: †Titanolepadidae
Genus: †Titanolepas
Species (3): †T. curvatus – †T. spinifer – †T. tuberculata

Titanolepas Withers, 1913: 943
- Original status: valid subgenus of Calantica
- Geological range: Cretaceous, Aptian to Campanian
- Type species: Scalpellum tuberculatum Darwin, 1851: 43, by original designation
- ZooBank: 136A1C31-7C6E-43E3-9308-9FF062366830

Withers, T.H. 1913: Cirripeds from the Cenomanian Chalk of Cambridge. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913(3/4): 937-948. BHL Reference page. [See p. 943, original designation as Calantica (Titanolepas)]

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. 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. 122, discussion]
Gale, A.S. & Sørensen, A.M. 2015. Taxonomy and palaeoecology of thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from a Campanian rocky shoreline at Ivö Klack, southern Sweden. Cretaceous Research 54: 212–242. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2014.09.004 Reference page. [See p. 220, discussion]
Kočí, T., Kočová Veselská, M. & Jagt, J.W.M. 2014. Barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin described by Fritsch and Kafka (1887), with the exclusion of the family Stramentidae. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B, Historia Naturalis, 70(3–4): 223–234. DOI: 10.14446/AMNP.2014.223 PDF Reference page. [See p. 224, raise to full genus]
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. 130, as subgenus]