Fosterella tubulatus

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: Balanidae
Subfamilia: Megabalaninae
Tribus: Austromegabalanini
Genus: †Fosterella
Species: †Fosterella tubulatus

Name

Fosterella tubulatus (Withers, 1924: 28)

• Original genus: Balanus
• Original status: valid species
• Geological age: lower Pliocene to lower Pleistocene, New Zealand
• Lectotype locality: Castlepoint Formation, Castlepoint, North Island, New Zealand
• Types: lectotype Withers Pl. VII, fig. 1 (designated by Buckeridge)
• ZooBank: C239B3F7-2938-40EE-90D1-D4A5E096BAB2

References

• Buckeridge, J.S. 1983. Fossil barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin (50). Reference page. 
• Buckeridge, J.S. 2015. Revision of Southern Hemisphere taxa referred to Fosterella (Crustacea: Cirripedia), and their extinction in response to Pleistocene cooling. Integrative Zoology 10(6): 555–571. DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12161 Reference page.  [see p. 563, as Fosterella tubulata]
• Newman, W.A. 1979: On the biogeography of balanomorph barnacles of the Southern Ocean including new balanid taxa: A subfamily two genera and three species. IN Proceedings of the International Symposium of Marine Biogeography and Evolution in the Southern Hemisphere. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research information series 137 1: 279–306. Reference page.  (as Notomegabalanus tubulatus)
• 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. 69, as Megabalanus tubulatus]
• Withers, T. H. 1924: The fossil cirripeds of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 10: 1-47. HathiTrust Reference page.  [See p. 28, as Balanus (Megabalanus) tubulatus]