Taxonavigation

Familia: †Zeugmatolepadidae
Subfamilia: †Zeugmatolepadinae
Genus: †Zeugmatolepas
†Species: Zeugmatolepas cretae

Name

Zeugmatolepas cretae (Steenstrup, 1837: 359)

• Original genus: Anatifera
• Geological age: Cretaceous (Senonian)
• Type locality: Denmark
• Types: Lectotype Pl. iv, fig. 3 of Steenstrup, 1839 (by Withers, 1935); listed as Type ZMUC 6149
• Distribution: Cretaceous and Paleocene (Danian), Northern Europe
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Synonyms

• Scalpellum faxense Brunnich Nielson, 1912: 39
  • Synonymized by Withers, 1935
  • ZooBank

References

• Brūnnich Nielson, K. 1912: Cirripedierne i Danmarks Danien-Aflejringer. Meddelelser Fra Dansk Geologisk Forening, 4(1): 19–42. [in Danish] pdf Reference page. 

• Darwin, C. 1851: A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain. Paleontographical Society, London. 88 pp. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 45, as Scalpellum cretae]

• Steenstrup, J. 1837: Om Forwerdenens Dyrarter af de tvende Familier Anatiferidae (Gray) og Pollicipedidae (Gray). Naturhistorisk tidsskrift 1: 358-366. [in Danish] BHL Reference page.  [See p. 359, as Anatifera cretae] (name and description only)

• Steenstrup, J. 1839: Bidrag til Cirripedernes Historie i Fortid og Nutid. Første Bidrag. Anatiferidae og Pollicipedidae fra Kridtperioden. Naturhistorisk tidsskrift 2(4): 396-415. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 399, and Pl. iv, fig. 1-3] (discussion and illustration)

• Withers, T.H. 1913: Cirripeds from the Cenomanian Chalk of Cambridge. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913(3/4): 937-948. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 942, generic reassignment]

• 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. 88, as Zeugmatolepas cretae]