Fallaxlepas fallax

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Brachylepadomorpha
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Sessilia Subordo: Brachylepadomorpha

Familia: Brachylepadidae
Genus: †Fallaxlepas
†Species: Fallaxlepas fallax

Name

• Fallaxlepas fallax (Darwin, 1851): 75
  • Original genus: Pollicipes
  • Original status: valid species
  • Geological age: Cretaceous (Turonian-lower Maastrichtian),
  • Type locality: Upper Chalk, Norwich, England
  • Types: Lectotype scutum, Norwich Museum 2153, figured in Darwin as Pl. IV, fig. 8a; paralectotypes Norwich Museum 2153a, b, c, d; selected by Withers,
  • Distribution: England, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Bohemia, Sweden, Germany
  • ZooBank: D2E5BD6D-2452-4D3C-8EE0-7BDB29C2E1AE}}

References

• 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. 75, as Pollicipes fallax, original description]

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• Bosquet, J.A.H. 1857. Notice sur quelques Cirripèdes récemment découverts dans le Terrain Crétacé du Duché de Limbourg. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen uitgegeven door de Hollandsche Maatschappij voor Wetenschappen te Haarlem, 2(13): 1–36. Reference page.  [See p. 17, as Mitella fallax, generic re-assignment]
• Fritsch, A. & Kafka, 1887. Die crustaceen der böhmischen kreideformation. Selbstverlag, in commission von F. R̆ivnác̆, Prague, 53 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.10148 BHL Reference page.  [See p. 10, discussion]
• Gale, A.S. 2020. New thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Cretaceous of Europe and North Africa. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 295(3): 243–282. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2020/0886 Reference page.  [See p. 277, as Fallaxlepas fallax, generic re-assignment]
• Kočí, T., Veselská, M.K. & Jagt, J.W.M. 2014. Barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica)from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin described by Fritsch and Kafka (1887), with the exclusion of the family Stramentidae. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B, Historia Naturalis, 70(3–4): 223–234. DOI: 10.14446/AMNP.2014.223 PDF Reference page.  [See p. 227, discussion]
• Withers, T.H. 1912. Cirripedes in the Norwich Museum from the Norfolk Chalk, studied by Darwin. Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 9(3): 308-315. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 309, discussion, lectotype selection]
• Withers, T.H. 1914: Some Cretaceous and Tertiary cirripedes referred to Pollicipes. Annals and magazine of natural history, ser. 8 14(80): 167-206. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 175, discussion, re-description as Pycnolepas fallax, genreic re-assignment]
• 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. 367] (see for full synonymy)
• Woodward, A.S. 1906: On a Carboniferous fish-fauna from the Mansfield District, Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum, Melbourne, (1) Reference page.  [See p. 340, as Brachylepas fallax, generic reassignment]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Fallaxlepas fallax – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Fallaxlepas fallax.
• ION
• Fallaxlepas fallax in the World Register of Marine Species