Brachylepas

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanomorpha
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

Stem group Balanomorpha
Familia: Brachylepadidae
Genus: †Brachylepas
Species (6): †B. americanum – †B. angulosa – †B. guascoi – †B. hantonensis – †B. naissanti – †B. thieli –

Source(s) of checklist:
based on list in Jagt, 2007: 254

Name

• Brachylepas Woodward, 1901: 321
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Gender: [neuter]
  • Geological range: Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian to Maastrichtian)
  • Type species: Pyrgoma cretacea Woodward, 1865, by original designation, accepted as Emarginula naissanti Hebert, 1855
  • ZooBank: 5BF47AAC-E38A-4EB0-97CE-DAA0B885F083

References

• Woodward, H. 1901. On Pyrgoma cretacea, a Cirripede from the Upper Chalk of Norwich and Margate. Geological magazine 8(4): 145–152, 250, 528. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756800178392 BHL Reference page.  [See p. 150, 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. 44]
• Gale, A.S. & Vidovic, S.U. 2023. The origins of major sessile cirripede groups; a revision of Cretaceous Balanomorpha and Verrucomorpha. Journal of Systematic Paleontology 21(1)ː 2258370. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2023.2258370 Reference page.  [See p. 40, list of species]
• Jagt, J.W.M. 2007. A Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) record of the brachylepadid cirripede genus Pycnolepas from northeast Belgium. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 245(2): 253–261. DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2007/0245-0253 Reference page. 
• Woodward, H. 1865. First report on the structure and classification of the fossil Crustacea. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 35th Meeting, Birmingham: 320–322. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 321]