Titanolepas tuberculata

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: †Titanolepadidae
Genus: †Titanolepas
Species: Titanolepas tuberculata

Name

• Titanolepas tuberculata (Darwin, 1851): 43
  • Original genus: Scalpellum
  • Stratigraphic and geographic distribution: Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian), Cambridge, Kent, Bedfordshire, UK
  • Type locality: Chalk detritus, Charing Kent
  • Typus: Harris Museum, now in BMNH carina I.14657, scutum I.14659, tergum I.14658 on card id'd by Darwin; carina selected as lectotype by Withers, 1913: 944
  • ZooBank: B2DFCE91-D520-43A2-B2A9-0B08E6FEA26E

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. 43, original description as Scalpellum tuberculatum]

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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. 122, supplementary description, distribution, types]
• 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. 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, as Calantica (Titanolepas) tuberculata, redescription, synonymy]
• 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, discussion]