Thecostraca - Balanomorpha

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: Balanomorpha according to B. K. K. Chan et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Balanoidea, Brachylepadidae, Chthamaloidea, Coronuloidea, Elminoidea, Neobalanomorpha

Subtaxa: Pachydiadematidae

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Type: Pachydiadema

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Röper lens, Ivö Klack (Cretaceous of Sweden)

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