Brachylepas guascoi

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: †Brachylepas guascoi

Name

• Brachylepas guascoi (Bosquet, 1857): 11
  • Original genus: Mitella
  • Stratigraphic and geographic distribution: Cretaceous (upper lower Campanian to Maastrichtian); Sweden, Belgium, Holland
  • Type locality: Karlshamn, Scania, Sweden
  • Typus: Lectotype scutum illustrated in Bosquet, 1857, Pl. 1, fig. 8, in Natural History Museum, Brussels (RBINS); selected by Withers, 1935: 383
  • ZooBank: 4CB1CDE7-E691-464A-9FAB-D7EBE7F879E7

Synonyms

• Brachylepas bosqueti Woodward, 1906: 339 footnote
  • Synonymized in Withers, 1935: 383; unnecessary replacement name for Brachylepas lithotryoides
• Mitella lithotryoides Bosquet, 1857: 23; see also as Brachylepas lithotryoides Woodward, 1906: 339
  • Synonymized in Withers, 1914: 170
  • Typus: Lectotype carina illustrated in Bosquet, 1857, Pl. 1, fig. 6a-c, apparently lost
  • ZooBank: 98981A19-7795-4279-82C4-EE7390B90BF2
• Pollicipes nilssoni Steenstrup, 1839: 401 in part (fig. 22, 23 only; others are known as Calantica (Scillaelepas) nilssoni
  • Synonymized in Withers, 1935: 383
  • Typus: lectotype carina illustrated in Steenstrup, 1839, fig. 23, as Pollicipes nilssoni; paralectotype rostrum fig. 22, selected by Withers, 1935: 383
  • ZooBank: 5FC2D2CD-B6CC-49B6-AB28-948C02F3EB3D

References

• Bosquet, J.A.H. 1857. Notice sur quelques Cirripèdes récemment découverts dans le Terrain Crétacé du Duché de Limbourg. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen uitgegeven door de Hollandsche Maatschappij voor Wetenschappen te Haarlem, 2(13): 1–36. Reference page.  [See p. 11, as Mitella guascoi, original description; also as Mitella lithotryoides, original description]

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• 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. 52, as Pollicipes nilssoni]
• Gale, A.S. & Sørensen, A.M. 2014. Origin of the balanomorph barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica): new evidence from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Sweden. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(9): 781–824. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2014.954824 Reference page.  [See p. 16]
• Gale, A.S. & Sørensen, A.M. 2015. Taxonomy and palaeoecology of thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from a Campanian rocky shoreline at Ivö Klack, southern Sweden. Cretaceous Research 54: 212–242. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2014.09.004 Reference page.  [See p. 238, discussion, reconstruction]
• 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. 42, discussion, distribution, synonymy]
• 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. 401, as Pollicipes nilssoni, original description]
• Withers, T.H. 1914: Some Cretaceous and Tertiary cirripedes referred to Pollicipes. Annals and magazine of natural history, ser. 8 14(80): 167-206. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 169, as Brachylepas lithotryoides]
• 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. 383, as Brachylepas guascoi; generic re-assignment, synonymy, description, discussion]
• Woodward, H. 1906. Cirripedes from the Trimmingham Chalk and other localities in Norfolk. Geological magazine Decade V, 3(8): 337–353. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756800118461 BHL Reference page.  [See p. 339, as Brachylepas lithotryoides, and footnote as Brachylepas bosqueti]