Virgiscalpellum heteroplax
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| Taxonavigation: Scalpelliformes |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Scalpellidae
Subfamilia: †Virgiscalpellinae
Genus: †Virgiscalpellum
†Species: Virgiscalpellum heteroplax
Name edit
- Virgiscalpellum heteroplax (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1951: 208)
- Original genus: Scalpellum
- Geological age: Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian)
- Type locality: Tortuga Formation, Paita Beds, La Tortuga, about 21 km SW of Paita, Paita Peninsula, northern Peru
- Types: Holotype right scutum, ANSP 18943, not located
- Distribution: Only known specimen, known only from type locality
- ZooBank: 3A2BC2C5-2B09-4A96-8962-E6CFB01814F0
References edit
- Pilsbry, H.A. & Olsson, A.A. 1951. Tertiary and Cretaceous Cirripedia from Northwestern South America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 103: 197–210 Reference page. [See p. 208, as Scalpellum (Virgiscalpellum) heteroplax, original description]
- 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, list of accepted 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, revised list of accepted species]
- 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. 163, as Virgiscalpellum heteroplax]
