Scalpellum cyphum Withers 1910 (barnacle)

Thecostraca - Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae

Full reference: T. H. Withers. 1910. Some new species of the cirripede genus Scalpellum from British Cretaceous rocks. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade V 7:151-159

Belongs to Scalpellum according to T. H. Withers 1910

Sister taxa: Scalpellum accumulatum, Scalpellum aduncatum, Scalpellum augustum, Scalpellum australe, Scalpellum crassum, Scalpellum dalpiazi, Scalpellum dissimile, Scalpellum gibbum, Scalpellum kamajkense, Scalpellum lineatum, Scalpellum longissimum, Scalpellum maximum, Scalpellum nitens, Scalpellum paratethyianum, Scalpellum parvulum, Scalpellum pfeifferi, Scalpellum quadricarinatum, Scalpellum scalpellum, Scalpellum subquadratum

Type specimen: BMNH I.13405, an other (carina). Its type locality is Grey Chalk, Dover (J. Starkie Gardner collection), which is in a Cenomanian/Cenomanian carbonate chalk in the Zig-Zag Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Grey Chalk, Dover (J. Starkie Gardner collection)

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