Aporolepas reflexa

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: Calanticidae
Subfamilia: Calanticinae
Genus: †Aporolepas
Species: †Aporolepas reflexa

Name

• Aporolepas reflexa (J de C Sowerby, 1829): 222
  • Original genus: Pollicipes
  • Stratigraphic and geographic range: Eocene (Priabonian); Isle of Wight, UK
  • Type locality: Colville Bay, Isle of Wight
  • Typus: Syntypes BMNH PI In.32304, 32309
  • ZooBank: AA2DD91D-5D0E-414E-80A4-B69530ED7AC3

References

• Sowerby, J. de C., 1829. The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or, Coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth. Volume VI. London. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 222, original description as Pollicipes reflexus]

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• 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. 58, supplemental description, identification of plate types]
• Gale, A.S., Tracey, S. & Trif, N. 2022. Cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Eocene (Lutetian—Bartonian) of the United Kingdom, France and Romania. Cainozoic Research 22(1): 81–99. Reference page.  [See p. 86, re-description and re-illustration]
• Withers, T.H. 1953: Catalogue of fossil Cirripedia in the Department of Geology, III. Tertiary. British Museum (Natural History), London, 396 p. Reference page.  [See p. ]