Aporolepas

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Calanticomorpha

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 Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Ordine: Calanticomorpha

Familia: Calanticidae
Subfamilia: Calanticinae
Genus: †Aporolepas
Species (7†): A. americanum – A. angulata – A. crepidula – A. howei – A. recurvatum – A. reflexa – A. rhombica –

Name

• Aporolepas Withers, 1953: 116
  • Geological range: Eocene (basal Lutetian to uppermost Priabonian); ?Oligocene (Rupelian)
  • Type species:: Scalpellum recurvatum Bertrand, 1891: 694
  • ZooBank: BFBC57AB-3A61-4E72-BBC4-174782C8ED42

References

• Withers, T.H. 1953: Catalogue of fossil Cirripedia in the Department of Geology, III. Tertiary. British Museum (Natural History), London, 396 p. Reference page.  [See p. 116, original description]

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• 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, listed under Zeugmatolepadidae]
• Gale, A.S., Tracey, S. & Trif, N. 2022. Cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Eocene (Lutetian—Bartonian) of the United Kingdom, France and Romania. Cainozoic Research 22(1): 81–99. Reference page.  [See p. 86, re-assignment to Calanticidae]