Loriculina colombiana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeolepadomorpha

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: †Archaeolepadomorpha

Familia: †Stramentidae
Subfamilia: †Loriculinae
Genus: †Loriculina
Species: Loriculina colombiana (Royo y Gomez, 1941: 210)

Name

• Original genus: Loricula
• Geological age: Cretaceous (Turonian)
• Type locality: Calera de La Frontera, Alban (Cundinamarca), Colombia
• Types: Lectotype; material figured in Royo y Gomez, 1941, fig. 1-3, designated by Gale, 2015: location of material unknown
• Distribution: Colombia, attached to Inoceramus and ammonoids
• ZooBank: 2112F2B2-EB4B-4474-839E-9C51B9C86987

References

• Gale, A.S. 2015. Origin and phylogeny of the Cretaceous thoracican cirripede family Stramentidae. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(8): 653–702. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2015.1091149Reference page. 
• Nomura, S.-I.; Maeda, H.; Harada, S.; Tanaka, G. 2009: First record of the Cirripede genus Stramentum (Thoracica, Scalpelliformes) from the upper Cretaceous of Japan. Palaeontology 52(4): 845–859. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00885.x Reference page. 
• Royo y Gómez, J. 1941: Crustáceos y Seudoterópodos del Cretácico de Colombia. Boletín de Minas y Petróleos 121(A144): 209-214. Reference page.  [See p. 210, as Loricula colombiana]