Fallaxlepas fallax

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: †Fallaxlepas
†Species: Fallaxlepas fallax

Name

• Fallaxlepas fallax (Darwin, 1851): 75
  • Original genus: Pollicipes
  • Original status: valid species
  • Stratigraphic and geographic range: Cretaceous (Turonian-lower Maastrichtian), England, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Bohemia, Sweden, Germany
  • Type locality: Upper Chalk, Norwich, England
  • Typus: Lectotype scutum, Norwich Museum 2153, figured in Darwin as Pl. IV, fig. 8a; paralectotypes Norwich Museum 2153a, b, c, d; selected by Withers,
  • 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., Kočová Veselská, M. & 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]