Leweslepas acuminata

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: Stramentinae
Genus: †Leweslepas
†Species: Leweslepas acuminata

Name

Leweslepas acuminata (Darwin, 1851: 56)

• Original genus: Pollicipes
• Geological age: Cretaceous ?(Cenomanian)
• Type locality: Lower Chalk, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, England
• Types: Partial left scutum figured in Darwin, 1851; Flower collection, apparently lost
• ZooBank: 7D33C1F5-BACA-44A2-A317-7E9052DE97C5

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. 
• Darwin, C. 1851. A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain. Paleontographical Society, London. 88 pp. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 56, as Pollicipes acuminatus]
• 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. 304, as Loriculina acuminata]