Toarcolepas mutans

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Phosphatothoracica
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: Phosphatothoracica

Ordine: †Eolepadomorpha
Familia: †Eolepadidae
Genus: †Toarcolepas
Species: Toarcolepas mutans

Name

• Toarcolepas mutans Gale & Schweigert, 2016: 65
  • Symbiont: epiplanktonic epibiont associated with driftwood
  • Geological age: lower Jurassic (Toarcian)
  • Type locality: Unterer Stein, Toarcian, falciferum Zone, Zell u. Aichelberg, Germany
  • Types: Holotype paired terga SMNS 26029/1; paratypes SMNS 26029/2, 26029/3
  • Distribution: known only from type area
  • ZooBank: BA33E547-711E-4273-B7D7-97C041A195C2

References

• Gale, A.S. & Schweigert, G. 2015. A new phosphatic-shelled cirripede (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Lower Jurassic of Germany - the oldest epiplanktonic barnacle. Palaeontology 59(1): 59–70. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12207 Reference page. 

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• Chan, B.K-K., Dreyer, N., Gale, A.S., Glenner, H., Ewers-Saucedo, C., Perez-Losada, M., Kolbasov, G.A., Crandall, K.A. & Høeg, J.T. 2021. The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193(3): 789–846. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160 Reference page. 
• Gale, A.S., Keupp, H. & Schweigert, G. 2022. Phosphatic ciripedes from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Germany, and a revision of the family Eolepadidae Buckeridge, 1983 (Crustacea, Thoracica). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 304(1)ː 105–113. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2022/1058 Reference page.