Virgiscalpellum radiatum

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: Virgiscalpellum radiatum

Name

• Virgiscalpellum radiatum (Bosquet, 1854): 51
  • Original genus: Scalpellum
  • Geological age: Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
  • Type locality: St. Pietersburg, near Maastricht, Holland
  • Types: Lectotype scutum, figured in Bosquet, 1854, pl. iv, fig. 17, by Withers, 1935: 297; specimen lost, other types in Natural History Museum, Brussels
  • Distribution: Known only from type area
  • ZooBank: 4EFBE053-ADE1-457A-B9C5-7B33C4E2B4B1

References

• Bosquet, J. 1854: Les crustacés fossiles du terrain crétacé du Limbourg. Verhandelingen uitgegeven door de Commis­sie belast met het vervaardigen eener geologische beschrijving en kaart van Nederland, 2. A.C. Krusemann, Haarlem. pp. 1-127. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 51, as Scalpellum radiatum]

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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, as Virgiscalpellum radiatum]
• 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]
• 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. 297, as Scalpellum (Virgiscalpellum) radiatum]
• 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.  [Raised to full genus]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Virgiscalpellum radiatum – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Virgiscalpellum radiatum.
• ION
• Virgiscalpellum radiatum in the World Register of Marine Species