Virgiscalpellum ryckholti

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 ryckholti

Name

• Virgiscalpellum ryckholti (Withers, 1935: 292)
  • Original genus: Scalpellum
  • Geological age: Cretaceous (upper Maastrichtian)
  • Type locality: Between Vilt and Sibbe, Limbourg, Holland
  • Types: Holotype Pl. XXXVIII, fig. 10, Natural History Museum, Brussels
  • Distribution: Limbourg, Holland
  • ZooBank: 538834B9-1948-4415-9BF0-F8C68289DE90

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. 292, as Scalpellum (Virgiscalpellum) ryckholti, original description]

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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, list of accepted 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.  [Elevated to full genus, generic reassignment]