Superorder Phosphatothoracica Gale 2019 (barnacle)

Thecostraca - Thoracica

Full reference: A. Gale. 2019. Stalked barnacles (Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset, UK; palaeoecology and bearing on the evolution of living forms. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 130:355-365

Parent taxon: Thoracica according to B. K. K. Chan et al. 2021

See also Gale 2019

Sister taxa: Lepadiformes, Pedunculata, Scalpelliformes, Thoracicalcarea

Subtaxa: Eolepadomorpha Iblomorpha

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

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