Pycnolepas scalaris Withers 1914 (barnacle)

Thecostraca - Verrucomorpha - Pycnolepadidae

Belongs to Pycnolepas according to A. S. Gale and S. U. Vidovic 2023

See also Jagt et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Pycnolepas batchelorum, Pycnolepas fimbriata, Pycnolepas industriosa, Pycnolepas orientalis, Pycnolepas rigida, Pycnolepas tithonica

Type specimen: NHM I.16679, an other. Its type locality is Near Cambridge (Chalk Marl, Mockler collection), which is in a Cenomanian carbonate chalk in the Chalk Marl Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Near Cambridge (Chalk Marl, Mockler collection)

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