Verruca rocana

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

Familia: Verrucidae
Genus: Verruca
†Species: Verruca rocana

Verruca rocana Steinmann, 1921: 5

Geological age: Paleocene (Danian) to Paleocene (Thanetian)
Type locality: Roca Formation (Danian), Roca, Rio Negro, Patagonia, ARGENTINA
Types: Cluster on Ostrea wilckensi, Geological Museum, Freiburg, Germany
Distribution: Patagonia, Argentina; reported from Paleocene (Thanetian), North Carolina, USA
ZooBank: BAFF509F-DB45-4C63-9DA1-E0ED9C123C35

Steinmann, G. 1921. Anhang. Über eine Verruca von Roca. In: Wilckens, O. (Ed.), Beiträge zur Paläontologie von Patagonien, mit einem Beitrag von G. Steinmann. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1: 4—5. [In German] BHL Reference page. [See p. 5]
Brezina, S.S., Romero, M.V. & Casadío, S. 2017. Encrusting and Boring Barnacles Through the Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary in Northern Patagonia (Argentina). Ameghiniana 54(1): 107–123. DOI: 10.5710/AMGH.11.10.2016.2969 Reference page.
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. 347, for discussion, and BMNH hypotypes]
Zullo, V.A. & Baum, G.R. 1979: Paleogene barnacles from the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Southeastern Geology, 20: 229-246. Reference page. [See p. 238, for US locality, and USNM hypotypes]