Epibrachylepas newmani Gale 2014 (barnacle)

Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Brachylepadidae

Full reference: A. S. Gale. 2014. Taxonomic names, in Origin of the balanomorph barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica): new evidence from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Sweden. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13:791-824

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

See also Gale 2014

Sister taxon: Epibrachylepas smeetsi

Type specimen: NHM IC 858. Its type locality is Röper lens, Ivö Klack, which is in a Campanian open shallow subtidal packstone in Sweden.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Röper lens, Ivö Klack

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