Taxonavigation

Familia: †Waiparaconidae
Genus †Waiparaconus
Species: †Waiparaconus zelandicus

Name

Waiparaconus zelandicus (Withers, 1951): 155

• Original genus: Euscalpellum
• Geological age: Cretaceous (Senonian) to Paleocene; ?Upper Eocene
• Type locality: Upper Senonian, Waipara Gorge, North Canterbury, New Zealand
• Types: Holotype BMNH In.43731; paratypes BMNH In.43732-43757
• Distribution: Austral, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand, South America
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References

• Withers, T.H. 1951: Cretaceous and Eocene peduncles of the cirripede Euscalpellum. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology 1(5): 149-164. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 155, original description, as Euscalpellum zelandicum

• Buckeridge, J.S. 1983: Fossil barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Geological Survey paleontological bulletin, (50) Reference page.  [See p. 116, as Waiparaconus zelandicus, generic re-assignment]

• Buckeridge, J.S. 1993. A re-evaluation of the Gondwanan invertebrate Waiparaconus as a coelenterate. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 16(2): 221–233. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 228, re-assignment to Cnidaria]

• Buckeridge, J.S.; Campbell, H.J.; Maurizot, P. 2014: Unravelling the nature of Waiparaconus, a pennatulacean (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) from the Late Mesozoic–Early Cainozoic of the Southern Hemisphere. Integrative zoology, 9(2): 111–120. DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12060 Reference page.  [placement within Cnidaria]