Thecostraca - Calanticomorpha - Cretiscalpellidae
Alternative spelling: Cretiscalpellinae
Full reference: J. S. Buckeridge. 1983. Fossil barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 50:1-151
Parent taxon: Calanticomorpha according to B. K. K. Chan et al. 2021
See also Buckeridge 1983 and Kočová Veselská et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Calanticidae, Pachyscalpellum, Titanolepadidae
Subtaxa: Cretiscalpellum Jagtscalpellum Striascalpellum Witherscalpellum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Belgium (5 collections), Czechia (7), France (11), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (17), New Zealand (1), Poland (2), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (34), United States (16: Alabama, Delaware, Mississippi, Texas)
Total: 96 collections including 110 occurrences