Order Pollicipomorpha Chan et al. 2021 (barnacle)

Thecostraca - Pollicipomorpha

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: Archaeolepadomorpha, Balanomorpha, Calamida, Calanticomorpha, Scalpellomorpha, Sessilia, Unilatera, Verrucomorpha

Subtaxa: Lithotryidae Pollicipedidae Zeugmatolepadidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Spain (6 collections)

• Eocene of United States (13: Alabama, Georgia, Washington)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (1: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Belgium (1), Czechia (3), Germany (2), Poland (7), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (19), United States (9: North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas)

Total: 66 collections including 77 occurrences

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