Taxonavigation

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

Name

Euscalpellum minutum (Brown, 1849): 236

• Original genus: Pollicipes
• Geological age: Lower Eocene (Ypresian)
• Type locality: Lower Eocene (Ypresian): London Clay, Lower Heath, Hampstead, England, dug well
• Types: Lectotype illustrated in Sowerby, 1837, pl. ix, fig. 2, upper left (inframedian latus), reproduced in Brown, 1849; designated by Withers, 1953: 175; Sowerby's specimens BMNH In.35600-35609 (NHM page); Brown's illustration
• Distribution: South England
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References

• Brown, Capt. T. 1849. Illustrations of the fossil conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with descriptions and localities of all the species. Smith, Elder & Company, London, 273 pp. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 236, original description, as Pollicipes minutus]

• Sowerby, J. de C. 1837. Description of the new species and varieties figured in Plates VIII and IX. P. 136 In Wetherell, N.T., Observations on a well dug on the south side of Hampstead Heath. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2, 5(I): 131–136. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 136, as Polliceps? (sic)]

• 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. 174, as Euscalpellum minutum, generic re-assignment, lectotype designation]