Taxonavigation

Familia: Calanticidae
Subfamilia: Calanticinae
Genus: Euscalpellum
Species: †Euscalpellum eocenense

Name

Euscalpellum eocenense (Meyer, 1885): 69

• Original genus: Scalpellum
• Geological age: Middle Eocene (Lutetian), Cubitostrea sellaeformis Zone
• Type locality: Upper Lisbon Formation, Claiborne Bluff bed b, Monroe County, Alabama
• Types: Lectotype, carina, fig. a, lost; neotype scutum figured in Withers, 1953, pl. 21, fig. 2, is in Alabama Geological Survey
• ZooBank
• Distribution: Cubitostrea sellaeformis Zone, Gulf and East Coastal Plains, USA, not necessarily associated with oyster beds

References

• Meyer, O. 1885. The Geology and the Age of the Species in the Southern Old-tertiary. Part II, The Age of the Vicksburg and Jackson Beds. American Journal of Science, 30(175), art. 10: 60–72. BHL Reference page.  [ See p. 69, original description as Scalpellum eocenense]

• 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. 158, as Euscalpellum eocenense, generic re-assignment]

• Withers, T.H. 1953: Catalogue of fossil Cirripedia in the Department of Geology, III. Tertiary. British Museum (Natural History), London, 396 p. Reference page.  [See p. 186, illustrations, discussion]

• 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. 158, discussion]