Kathpalmeria parahesperia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanoidea

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 Subordo: Balanomorpha Superfamilia: Balanoidea

Familia: Archaeobalanidae
Subfamilia: Archaeobalaninae
Genus: †Kathpalmeria
Species: †Kathpalmeria parahesperia

Name

• Kathpalmeria parahesperia (Menesini, 1971): 22
  • Original genus: Balanus
  • Original status: valid species
  • Geological age: Lower Oligocene; Rupelian
  • Type locality: 'Sables de Fontainbleu', Champlan, near Paris
  • Typus: Lectotype tergum figured by Menesini, 1971, pl. 1, fig. 4; held in Istituto di Geologio e Paleontologia dell'Unoverrsità di Pisa, presumably unregistered
  • Distributionː Paris Basin
  • ZooBank: 3EA66494-5EB8-4307-A093-66D4742AD4EB

References

• Menesini, E. 1971. Nuove specie di Balanus (Cirripedia) dell' Eocene edell' Oligocene del baccina di Parigi. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 10: 19–34. PDF Reference page.  [See p. 22, original description as Balanus (Hesperibalanus) parahesperius]

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• Gale, A.S. 2020. Acorn barnacles (Crustacea, Thoracica, Balanomorpha) from the Eocene and Oligocene of the Isle of Wight and Hampshire (United Kingdom) and Manche, northern France. Acta Geologica Polonica 71(2)ː 153–174. DOI: 10.24425/agp.2020.132263 pdf Reference page.  [See p. 165, as Kathpalmeria parahesperia, generic re-assignment]
• Newman, W.A. & Ross, E. 1976. Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page.  [See p. 51, as Solidobalanus (Hesperibalanus) parahesperius]