Taxonavigation

Familia: †Stramentidae
Genus: Stramentum
Species: Stramentum canadensis

Name

Stramentum canadensis (Whiteaves, 1889: 190)

• Original genus: Loricula
• Geological age: Cretaceous (Turonian)
• Epibiont: Benthic epibiont on large mollusk shells
• Type locality: South Duck River, T34N, R23W, Duck and Riding Mountain District, Manitoba, Canada; exact stratigraphic position not known
• Types: Holotype, specimen figured in Whiteaves, 1889, pl. 26, fig. 4, 4a
• Distribution: Canada, Kansas, on Inoceramus
• ZooBank: 93A35CEB-C967-4907-B2B3-63F60BF34335

References

• 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. 35, holotype designation]

• Hattin, D.E. 1977: Articulated lepadomorph cirripeds from the Upper Cretaceous of Kansas: Family Stramentidae. Journal of paleontology 51(4): 797–825. JSTOR Reference page.  [See p. 815] (Kansas localities, updated description)

• 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. 170]

• Whiteaves, J.F. 1889: On some Cretaceous fossils from British Columbia, the North West Territory and Manitoba. Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 1: 151–196. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 190, as Loricula canadensis]

• 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. 319, as Stramentum canadensis] (generic reassignment)