Jaegerscalpellum politum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scalpelliformes
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 Ordo: Scalpelliformes

Familia: Scalpellidae
Genus: †Jaegerscalpellum
Species: Jaegerscalpellum politum

Name

• Jaegerscalpellum politum (Darwin, 1851): 54
  • Original genus: Pollicipes
  • Geological age: Cretaceous; upper Albian, Diploceras cristatum Zone
  • Type locality: unknown, probably Gault Formation
  • Typus: Bowerbank Collection, lost
  • Distribution: Gault Formation, Folkstone, Kent, England
  • ZooBank: 52EC8FDA-1C83-441A-AE90-9D2DB8B76694

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. 54, original description as Pollicipes politus]

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• Gale, A.S. 2019. Thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) of Hannover, northern Germany. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 130(6): 659–672. DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.03.002 Reference page.  [See p. 669, as Jaegerscalpellum politum, generic 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. 263, as Scalpellum (Arcoscalpellum) politum, generic re-assignment]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Jaegerscalpellum politum – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Jaegerscalpellum politum.
• ION