Taxonavigation

Familia: Brachylepadidae
Genus: Faxelepas
Species: Faxelepas bruennichi

Name

• Faxelepas bruennichi (Withers, 1914): 181, new replacement name
  • Original genus: Pycnolepas
  • Geological age: Palaeocene (middle Danian), type; Cretaceous records are misidentified
  • Type locality: Faxe, Sjaelland, eastern Denmark, Tylocidaris bruennichi Zone
  • Types: holotype NHM I.16625
  • Distribution: lower Palaeocene, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, southeast Netherlands, Crimea
  • ZooBank

References

• Withers, T.H. 1914: Some Cretaceous and Tertiary cirripedes referred to Pollicipes. Annals and magazine of natural history, ser. 8 14(80): 167-206. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 181, as Pycnolepas bruennichi, new replacement name and redescription]

• Gale, A.S. 2014: Origin and phylogeny of verrucomorph barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2014.954409 Reference page.  [See p. 23, as Faxelepas bruennichi, generic re-assignment]

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• 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.