Zeugmatolepas mockleri Withers 1913 (barnacle)

Thecostraca - Pollicipomorpha - Zeugmatolepadidae

Full reference: T. H. Withers. 1913. Cirripedes from the Cenomanian Chalk Marl of Cambridge. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 83:937-948

Belongs to Zeugmatolepas according to J. S. Buckeridge 1983

See also Collins 1974 and Withers 1913

Sister taxa: Zeugmatolepas australis, Zeugmatolepas cretae, Zeugmatolepas georgiensis

Type specimen: BMNH I.15830, an otolith (nearly complete capitulum). 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:

• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (8 collections)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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