Taxonavigation

Familia: †Stramentidae
Genus: Stramentum
Species: Stramentum pulchellum

Name

Stramentum pulchellum (Sowerby, 1843: 260)

• Original genus: Loricula
• Geological age: Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian)
• Type locality: Cretaceous (Cenomanian); near Rochester, Kent, England
• Types: Holotype complete individual, BMNH 59150
• Distribution: Widespread in England, Europe, Mexico, on ammonoids
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Synonyms

• Loricula darwini Woodward, 1908]: 493
  • Synonymized by Withers, 1920: 70, as insufficiently distinct apart from size
  • Types: Syntypes, BMNH I.9130
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• Loricula gigas Fritsch, 1877: 147
  • Considered conspecific by Withers, 1920, and Veselska et al., 2013
  • Types: NMPC O3445, Prague
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• Loricula macadami Thomson, 1858: 322
  • Synonymized by Withers, 1920: 70, as not having distinctive diagnostic features
  • Types: Holotype in MacAdam Collection, Belfast Public Art Gallery and Museum; plaster cast BMNH In.20585
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References

• Fritsch, A. 1877. Studien im Gebiete der Böhmischen Kreideformation. II. Die Weissenbergeer und Malnitzer Schichten. Archiv für die naturwissenschaftliche Landesdurchforschung von Böhmen, 4(1): 1–153. BHL. Reference page. 

• Gale, A.S. 2015. Origin and phylogeny of the Cretaceous thoracican cirripede family Stramentidae. Journal of Systematic Paleontology 14(8): 653–702. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2015.1091149 Reference page.  [See p. 32, revision]

• Sowerby, G.B. Jr. 1843: Description of a new fossil cirripede from the upper Chalk near Rochester. Annals and magazine of natural history (1) 12: 260-261. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 260, as Loricula pulchella]

• Charles Wyville Thomson 1858: Description of the fossil. IN MacAdam, James, On a new fossil cirripede. Annals and magazine of natural history 3 1(5): 323-325. BHL Reference page. 

• Kočová-Veselská, M.; Koči, T.; Buckeridge, J.S. 2013: A systematic revision of Stramentum (Stramentum) pulchellum (G.B. Sowerby, Jr., 1843) (Cirripedia, Thoracica, Stramentidae) from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, the Czech Republic. Sborník Národního Muzea v Praze. Řada B, Přírodní vědy 69(3-4): 151-158. DOI: 10.14446/AMNP.2013.151 Reference page.  [See for complete synonymy, illustration and evaluation of Fritsch's specimens, and revision of all Bohemian material]

• Withers, T.H. 1920: The Cirripede subgenus Scillælepas; its probable occurrence in the Jurassic rocks (S. gaveyi, sp. n.). Annals and magazine of natural history 9 5(27): 258-264. DOI: 10.1080/00222932008632373 BHL Reference page. 

• 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. 316, as Stramentum pulchellum]

• Woodward, H. 1908: On a large cirripede belonging to genus Loricula from the Middle Chalk (Turonian), Cuxton, near Rochester, Kent. Geological magazine (decade V) 5, 491–499. BHL Reference page.