Brachylepas naissanti

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanomorpha
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 Subordo: Balanomorpha

Stem group Balanomorpha
Familia: Brachylepadidae
Genus: †Brachylepas
†Species: Brachylepas naissanti

Name

• Brachylepas naissanti (Hebert, 1855): 374
  • Original genus: Emarginula?
  • Original status: valid species
  • Stratigraphic and geographic range: Cretaceous (upper Campanian to Maastrichtian), England, Sweden, France, Germany, Kazakhstan
  • Type locality: Upper Campanian, Meudon, Paris, France
  • Types: lectotype Hebert, 1855, Pl. 29, fig. 10, by Withers, 1935: 375; apparently lost
  • ZooBank: 009453E1-020A-49ED-81E2-988B14E90EFC

Synonyms

• not Belemnites mammillatus Nilsson, 1827: 9 (first mention, incorrectly identified as beak of belemnoid)
• Pollicipes cancellatus Marsson, 1880: 24
  • Synonymized in Withers, 1912: 323
  • Typus: Geologisches Landesmuseum, Berlin
  • ZooBank: 2C5C592D-3D58-4346-AEDC-7A078C7A2D61
• Pyrgoma cretacea Woodward, 1865: 321; also Woodward, 1901: 150, as Brachylepas cretacea, generic re-assignment
  • Synonymized in Withers, 1912: 323
  • Typus: NHMUK In.27160
  • ZooBank: 2489A24D-C74E-499A-8CF5-100A28BA43D9
• Pollicipes laevissimus Quenstedt, 1883: 467
  • Synonymized in Withers, 1912: 323
  • Typus: University of Tübingen, lost
  • ZooBank: CE18B8B2-BA0F-4F50-8A95-671601F627CB

References

• Hébert, E. 1855. Tableau des fossiles de la Craie de Meudon. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 2 5(4): 345–374. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 374, as Emarginula naissanti]

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• Gale, A.S. & Sørensen, A.M. 2014. Origin of the balanomorph barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica): new evidence from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Sweden. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(9): 781–824. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2014.954824 Reference page.  [See p. 20, illustration]
• Gale, A.S. & Vidovic, S.U. 2023. The origins of major sessile cirripede groups; a revision of Cretaceous Balanomorpha and Verrucomorpha. Journal of Systematic Paleontology 21(1)ː 2258370. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2023.2258370 Reference page.  [See p. 42, clarification of lectotype, distribution]
• Marsson, T. 1880. Die Cirripedien und Ostracoden der weissen Schreibkreide der Insel Rügen. Mittheilungen aus dem naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine von Neu-Vorpommern und Rügen in Greifswald 12: 1–50, pls. I–III. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 24, as Pollicipes cancellatus, junior synonym]
• Newman, W.A. 1987. Evolution of cirripeds and their major groups. Pp 3–42 In A.J. Southward (ed.) Barnacle Biology. Crustacean Issues, 5. Google Books. Reference page.  [See p. , as Brachylepas cretacea]
• Quenstedt, F.A. 1883. Handbuch der Petrifaktenkunde, 3rd ed., 2 vols., Svo Tübingen. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 467, original description, as Pollicipes laevissimus]
• Withers, T.H. 1912: The cirripede Brachylepas cretacea, H. Woodward, (pt. 1). Geological magazine, decade V 9(7): 321-326. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 323, as Brachylepas naissanti] (See for full synonymy)
• Withers, T.H. 1912: The cirripede Brachylepas cretacea, H. Woodward, pt. 2. Geological magazine 9(8): 353-359. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 353, types]
• Woodward, H. 1865. First report on the structure and classification of the fossil Crustacea. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 35th Meeting, Birmingham: 320–322. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 321, as Pyrgoma cretacea, first mention]
• Woodward, H. 1868. Contributions to British fossil crustacea. Geological magazine, Decade 1, 5(46): 258–261. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 258, full description of species]
• Woodward, H. 1901. On Pyrgoma cretacea, a Cirripede from the Upper Chalk of Norwich and Margate. Geological magazine 8(4): 145–152, 250, 528. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756800178392 BHL Reference page.  [See p. 150, as Brachylepas cretacea]