Zeugmatolepas cretae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pollicipedomorpha
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: Pollicipedomorpha

Familia: †Zeugmatolepadidae
Subfamilia: †Zeugmatolepadinae
Genus: †Zeugmatolepas
†Species: Zeugmatolepas cretae

Name

• Zeugmatolepas cretae (Steenstrup, 1837: 359)
  • Original genus: Anatifera
  • Geological age: Cretaceous (Senonian) through Paleocene (Danian)
  • Type locality: Denmark
  • Types: Lectotype Pl. iv, fig. 3 of Steenstrup, 1839 (by Withers, 1935); listed as Type ZMUC 6149, lost as at August, 2019: (Gale, 2020: 245)
  • Distribution: Cretaceous and Paleocene (Danian), Northern Europe
  • ZooBank: 2D7906FB-F2E6-4A49-918E-41AC74681294

Synonyms

• Scalpellum faxense Brunnich Nielson, 1912: 39
  • Synonymized by Withers, 1935
  • ZooBank: 311515BF-D77C-4E6D-B83C-DDD105DE2983
• Stramentum biplicatum Jagt & Collins, 1989: 190
  • Synonymized by Gale, 2015: fig. 14, C, D
  • Type locality: Zeven Wegen Chalk Member, upper Campanian, CPL Quarry, Haccourt, Belgium
  • Typus: Holotype scutum NHMUK In. 63637
  • ZooBank: C04B9D0A-2393-45D8-95B3-B216EEDC662C

References

• Steenstrup, J.J.S. 1837: Om Forwerdenens Dyrarter af de tvende Familier Anatiferidae (Gray) og Pollicipedidae (Gray). Naturhistorisk tidsskrift 1: 358-366. [in Danish] BHL Reference page.  [See p. 359, as Anatifera cretae] (name and description only)

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• Brūnnich Nielson, K. 1912. Cirripedierne i Danmarks Danien-Aflejringer. Meddelelser Fra Dansk Geologisk Forening, 4(1): 19–42. [in Danish] pdf Reference page. 
• 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. 45, as Scalpellum cretae]
• 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.  [synonymizes Stramentum biplicatum]
• Gale, A.S. 2020. New thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Cretaceous of Europe and North Africa. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 295(3): 243–282. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2020/0886 Reference page.  [See p. 245, discussion of varieties, synonymy
• Jagt, J.W.M. & Collins, J.S.H. 1989: Upper Cretaceous cirripedes from N.E. Belgium. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 100(2): 183–192. DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(89)80005-7 abstract Reference page. 
• Steenstrup, J.J.S. 1839: Bidrag til Cirripedernes Historie i Fortid og Nutid. Første Bidrag. Anatiferidae og Pollicipedidae fra Kridtperioden. Naturhistorisk tidsskrift 2(4): 396-415. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 399, and Pl. iv, fig. 1-3] (discussion and illustration)
• 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. 942, generic reassignment]
• 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. 88, as Zeugmatolepas cretae]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Zeugmatolepas cretae – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Zeugmatolepas cretae.
• ION