Zeugmatolepas georgiensis Withers 1947 (barnacle)

Thecostraca - Pollicipomorpha - Zeugmatolepadidae

Full reference: T. H. Withers. 1947. Cirripedia, in Paläontologische und geologische Ergebnisse der Reise von Kohl-Larsen (1928-29) nach Süd-Georgien. Abhandlungen der Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 474:1-75

Belongs to Zeugmatolepas according to T. H. Withers 1947

Sister taxa: Zeugmatolepas australis, Zeugmatolepas cretae, Zeugmatolepas mockleri

Type specimen: Senckenberg Museum 328. Its type locality is NE coast, Annenkov Island, which is in a Hauterivian/Aptian coastal sandstone in the Annenkov Island Formation of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at NE coast, Annenkov Island

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