Levelepas subtuberculata

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

Familia: †Titanolepadidae
Genus †Levelepas
Species: Levelepas subtuberculata

Name

• Levelepas subtuberculata (Withers, 1935): 136
  • Original genus: Calantica
  • Stratigraphic and geographic range: Cretaceous, middle to upper Senonian, M. coranguinam zone; Surrey, Hampshire and Sussex
  • Type locality: Sevington, Hampshire, UK
  • Typus: Holotype BMNH In. 30998; paratypes BMNH In. 31158 transferred to Titanolepas sp., BMNH In. 32437 transferred to ?Virgiscalpellum sp.
  • ZooBank: 9733606B-D9AA-4C51-837E-77C60008EFE9

References

• 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. 136, original description as Calantica (Titanolepas) subtuberculata]

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• 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. 222, as Levelepas subtuberculata, generic re-assignment]