Stramentum elegans

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeolepadomorpha

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: †Archaeolepadomorpha

Familia: †Stramentidae
Genus: Stramentum
Species: Stramentum elegans

Name

Stramentum elegans Hattin, 1977: 807

• Geological age: Cretaceous (early middle Turonian)
• Epibiont: Benthic on Inoceramus
• Type locality: middle Fairport Member, Carlile Shale, cut bank on south side of Smoky Hill River, SW 1/4, SE 1/4 sec. 10, T15S, R20W, approximately 13 1/2 miles southwest of Hays, Ellis County, Kansas
• Types: Holotype nearly complete adult, KU 111520; paratypes KU 111521-111582; KU 111661
• Distribution: Kansas, USA
• ZooBank: 538FB35F-1D83-425C-BCAB-BBDA7AA21A61

References

• Gale, A.S. 2015. Origin and phylogeny of the Cretaceous thoracican cirripede family Stramentidae. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(8): 653–702. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2015.1091149Reference page. 
• Hattin, D.E. 1977: Articulated lepadomorph cirripeds from the Upper Cretaceous of Kansas: Family Stramentidae. Journal of paleontology 51(4): 797–825. JSTOR Reference page.  [See p. 807]
• Weisbord, N.E. 1980. Fossil Lepadomorph, Brachylepadomorph, and Verrucomorph barnacles (Cirripedia) of the Americas. Bulletins of American paleontology 78(311): 113–212. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 171]