Protochelonibia melleni

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coronuloidea

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: Coronuloidea

Familia: Chelonibiidae
Subfamilia: †Protochelonibiinae
Genus: †Protochelonibia
†Species: Protochelonibia melleni

Name

• Protochelonibia melleni (Zullo, 1982): 3
  • Original genus: Chelonibia
  • Geological age: lower Oligocene (Rupelian)
  • Type locality: Oligocene (Rupelian); Byram Formation, Vicksburg Group, northwest bank of Tallahala Creek, NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 33, T.2 N., R.9 E., Smith County, Mississippi
  • Types: Holotype MSU 3260; paratypes MSU 3261-3264
  • Distribution: US Gulf Coastal Plain, Mississippi; Rupelian, southwest Germany
  • ZooBank: 2EB3351E-417F-4A78-91E3-A784E5A195BB

References

• Zullo, V.A. 1982. A new species of the turtle barnacle Chelonibia Leach, 1817, (Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the Oligocene Mint Spring and Byram Formations of Mississippi. Mississippi Geology, 2(3): 1–6. (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 3, original description as Chelonibia melleni]

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• Collareta, A., Harzhauser, M. & Rasser, M.W. 2021. New and overlooked occurrences of the rarely reported protochelonibiine "turtle" barnacles from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 96: 197–206. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-021-00576-5 Reference page.  [European occurrence]
• Collareta, A. & Newman, W.A. 2020. Protochelonibia melleni (Zullo, 1982) comb. nov., an archaic barnacle from the lower Oligocene of Mississippi (USA), and its impact on the stratigraphic and geographic distribution of the early coronuloids of Western Tethys. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 59(2): 179–181. DOI: 10.4435/BSPI.2020.08 [nonfunctional] . ResearchGate . Reference page.  [See for generic reassignment as Protochelonibia melleni]