Thecostraca - Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae
Full reference: T. H. Withers. 1946. New Cretaceous cirripedes and crab. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 12:552-561
Belongs to Virgiscalpellum according to T. H. Withers 1946
Sister taxa: Virgiscalpellum beisseli, Virgiscalpellum darwinianum, Virgiscalpellum gabbi, Virgiscalpellum hagenowianum, Virgiscalpellum inornatum, Virgiscalpellum mangyshlakense, Virgiscalpellum marysensis, Virgiscalpellum rugosum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Crackers, Atherfield (Wright collection), which is in an Aptian marine siliciclastic in the Atherfield Clay Formation of the United Kingdom
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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