Euscalpellum minutum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Calanticomorpha
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 Ordine: Calanticomorpha

Euscalpellum minutum (Brown, 1849): 236

Original genus: Pollicipes
Geological age: Lower Eocene (Ypresian)
Type locality: Lower Eocene (Ypresian): London Clay, Lower Heath, Hampstead, England, dug well
Types: Lectotype illustrated in Sowerby, 1837, pl. ix, fig. 2, upper left (inframedian latus), reproduced in Brown, 1849; designated by Withers, 1953: 175; Sowerby's specimens BMNH In.35600-35609 (NHM page); Brown's illustration
Distribution: South England
ZooBank: 5FEB0A05-EAF1-4BBF-9EA0-AE70FA048401

Brown, Capt. T. 1849. Illustrations of the fossil conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with descriptions and localities of all the species. Smith, Elder & Company, London, 273 pp. BHL Reference page. [See p. 236, original description, as Pollicipes minutus]
Sowerby, J. de C. 1837. Description of the new species and varieties figured in Plates VIII and IX. P. 136 In Wetherell, N.T., Observations on a well dug on the south side of Hampstead Heath. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2, 5(I): 131–136. BHL Reference page. [See p. 136, as Polliceps? (sic)]
Withers, T.H. 1953: Catalogue of fossil Cirripedia in the Department of Geology, III. Tertiary. British Museum (Natural History), London, 396 p. Reference page. [See p. 174, as Euscalpellum minutum, generic re-assignment, lectotype designation]