Virgiscalpellum

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
Subfamilia: †Virgiscalpellinae
Genus: †Virgiscalpellum
Species (21†): V. beisseli – V. clathratum – V. darwinianum – V. exsertum – V. gabbi – V. hagenowianum – V. heteroplax – V. inornatum – V. laevis – V. marysensis – V. mhrilensis – V. multilineatum – V. radiatum – V. rugosum – V. ryckholti – V. sussexiense – V. truncatum – V. vendeensis – V. wrighti

Name

• Virgiscalpellum Withers, 1935: 283
  • Original status: valid subgenus of Scalpellum
  • Gender: [neuter]
  • Geological range: Cretaceous; Aptian to Maastrichtian
  • Type species: Scalpellum beisseli Müller IN Bosquet, 1857: 7 by original designation
  • ZooBank: D95FAE1C-AF60-4F83-9F4D-C1BF82EDD47D

References

• 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. 283, as Scalpellum (Virgiscalpellum)]

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• Gale, A.S. 2020. New thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Cretaceous of Europe and North Africa. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 295(3): 243–282. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2020/0886 Reference page.  [See p. 259, species list, new species]
• Gale, A.S. 2020. Cirripedes (Thoracica, Crustacea) from the Cretaceous (Albian and Cenomanian) of Texas and Oklahoma, USA. Cretaceous Research 115: 104556. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104556 Reference page.  [See p. 7, discussion]
• Gale, A.S. 2020. Bathyal Pliocene -- early Pleistocene cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Rodrigues Ridge, Mascarene Plateau, Indian Ocean. Part 2. Cainozoic Research, 20(2): 189–207. Reference page.  [See p. 7, discussion, new species]
• Withers, T.H. 1945: New Cretaceous Cirripedes and Crab. Annals and magazine of natural history, series 11 12(92): 552-561. DOI: 10.1080/00222934508654759 Reference page.  [See p. 554, elevates to full genus]