Taxonavigation

Familia: †Stramentidae
Subfamilia: Loriculinae
Genus: †Loriculina
†Species: Loriculina laevissima

Name

Loriculina laevissima (von Zittel, 1884: 589)

• Original genus: Loricula
• Geological age: Cretaceous (Cenomanian-upper Santonian)
• Type locality: Upper Senonian (Oberer Kreidemergel) of Dülmen, Westphalia, Germany, originally on ammonoid shell
• Types: Holotype illustrated in Withers, 1935, Pl.Xl, fig. 2, in Geological and Paleontological Museum, Munich, Bavaria. Plaster cast numbered BMNH In.59713.
• Distribution: Western and Eastern Europe, England
• ZooBank: A6027720-2B33-4550-9C2A-A2BDF4067D48

References

• Dames, W. 1885: Ueber Loriculina Noetlingi nov. spec. von Sahel Alma vom Libanon. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft für naturforschende Freunde zu Berlin, 20(8): 151–155. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 155, generic reassignment]

• 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. 

• 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. 305, as Loriculina laevissima]

• von Zittel, K.A. 1884: Bemerkungen über einige fossile Lepaditen aus dem lighographischen Schiefer und der oberen Kreide. Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 14(4): 577-589. HathiTrust Reference page.  [See p. 589, as Loricula laevissima]