Conopea bacata

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 Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Sessilia Subordo: Balanomorpha Infraordo: Neobalanoformes Superfamilia: Balanoidea

Familia: Archaeobalanidae
Subfamilia: Archaeobalaninae
Genus: Conopea
Species: †Conopea bacata

Name

• Conopea bacata Carriol & Schneider, 2016: 46
  • Geological age: Miocene (mid-Burdigalian), early Ottnangian
  • Symbiont: structure is typical of gorgonian symbionts, no host indicated
  • Type locality: marginal equivalent of Neuhofen Formation; Gurlarn, near Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany
  • Types: Holotype BSPG 2007 X 233. Paratype BSPG 2007 X 234; paratype BSPG 2007 X 235; paratype BSPG 2007 X 236; paratype BSPG 2007 X 237
  • Distribution: Germany
  • ZooBank: 2D8D8B88-A06F-40F4-AF46-65810E363AC2

References

• Carriol, R-P. & Schneider, S. 2016. New species of cirripedes (Calanticidae, Scalpellidae and Archaeobalanidae) from the mid Burdigalian (Miocene) of the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Annales de Paléontologie, 102(1): 41–50. DOI: 10.1016/j.annpal.2016.01.002 Full article (PDF).Reference page.  [See p. 46, original description]