Taxonavigation

Familia: Scalpellidae
Genus: Arcuatoscalpellum
Species: Arcuatoscalpellum arcuatum

Name

• Arcuatoscalpellum arcuatum (Darwin, 1851): 40
  • Original genus: Scalpellum
  • Geological age: Cretaceous; Albian to Cenomanian
  • Type locality: Gault Formation, Folkestone, UK
  • Typus: Bowerbank Collection, now at BMNH; holotype carina BMNH In.13796; paratypes BMNH In. 13797, 13798
  • Distribution: UK
  • ZooBank: AB064E23-14E1-4663-A13F-3A4686E29309

References

• Darwin, C. 1851. A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain. Paleontographical Society, London. 88 pp. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 40, original description, as Scalpellum arcuatum]

• Gale, A.S. 2016. Phylogeny of the deep-sea cirripede family Scalpellidae (Crustacea, Thoracica) based on shell capitular plate morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 176(2): 266–304. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12321 Full article Reference page.  [See p. 297, list of accepted species, and designation as type species]
• Withers, T.H. 1912. Some early fossil cirripedes of the genus Scalpellum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1912(3): 528–539. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 532, re-description, types selection]
• 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. 204, as Scalpellum (Arcoscalpellum) arcuatum]