Pycnolepas scalaris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Verrucomorpha
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: Verrucomorpha

Stem-Group Verrucomorpha
Familiaː Pycnolepadidae
Genus: †Pycnolepas
Species: †Pycnolepas scalaris

Pycnolepas scalaris Withers, 1914: 187
- Stratigraphic and geographic range: Cretaceous (lower-middle Cenomanian), Schloenbachia varians Zone. Known only from type area
- Type locality: Cambridge Area, England
- Types: Holotype rostrum BMNH In.16679; paratypes BMNH In.16680-16682
- ZooBank: 7F8E3070-7FA7-48E7-AFE0-4CA16FE7B44C

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. 187, original description]

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. 24, discussion]
Jagt, J.W.M., Zonova, T.D. & Jagt-Yazykova, E.A. 2007. A review of the brachylepadomorph genus Pycnolepas, including the first record of an Early Cretaceous species from the Russian Far East. Zootaxa, 1545: 33–47. Reference page. [See p. 38]
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. 364]