Pycnolepas batchelorum Gale and Vidovic 2023 (barnacle)

Thecostraca - Verrucomorpha - Pycnolepadidae

Full reference: A. S. Gale and S. U. Vidovic. 2023. The origins of major sessile cirripede groups; a revision of Cretaceous Brachylepadomorpha and Verrucomorpha. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 21(2258370)

Belongs to Pycnolepas according to A. S. Gale and S. U. Vidovic 2023

Sister taxa: Pycnolepas fimbriata, Pycnolepas industriosa, Pycnolepas orientalis, Pycnolepas rigida, Pycnolepas scalaris, Pycnolepas tithonica

Type specimen: NHMUK PI In 64844, an other (tergum). Its type locality is Littleton, Guildford, which is in an Aptian marine siliciclastic in the Bargate Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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