Thecostraca - Archaeolepadomorpha
Full reference: B. K. K. Chan, N. Dreyer, A. S. Gale, H. Glenner, C. Ewers-Saucedo, M. Pérez-Losada, G. A. Kolbasov, K. A. Crandall, and J. T. Høeg. 2021. The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193:789-846
Parent taxon: Thoracicalcarea according to B. K. K. Chan et al. 2021
Sister taxa: Balanomorpha, Calamida, Calanticomorpha, Pollicipomorpha, Scalpellomorpha, Sessilia, Unilatera, Verrucomorpha
Subtaxa: Archaeolepadidae Myolepadidae Stramentidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Australia (1 collection), Belgium (1), Canada (1: Alberta), Colombia (3), Czechia (1), France (1), Germany (4), Kazakhstan (1), Lebanon (2), Mexico (4), Morocco (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (3), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (38: Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (3)
Total: 82 collections including 92 occurrences