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Pycnolepas rigida

Thecostraca - Verrucomorpha - Pycnolepadidae

Taxonomy
Pollicipes rigidus was named by Sowerby (1836). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Folkestone, Gault (BMNH collection), which is in an Albian carbonate chalk in the Gault Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Pycnolepas.

It was recombined as Pycnolepas rigidus by Withers (1935); it was recombined as Pycnolepas rigida by Carriol and Collins (2000), Jagt et al. (2007) and Gale and Vidovic (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1836Pollicipes rigidus Sowerby
1935Pycnolepas rigidus Withers p. 352
2000Pycnolepas rigida Carriol and Collins p. 143
2007Pycnolepas rigida Jagt et al. p. 36
2023Pycnolepas rigida Gale and Vidovic p. 22 figs. 13A-Q

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
subphylumCrustaceaBrünnich 1772
classThecostraca(Gruvel 1905)
subclassCirripedia(Rafinesque 1816)
infraclassThoracica(Darwin 1854)
superorderThoracicalcarea()
Sessilia(Lamarck 1818)
orderVerrucomorpha(Pilsbry 1916)
familyPycnolepadidae
genusPycnolepasWithers 1914
speciesrigida(Sowerby 1836)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Pycnolepas rigida Sowerby 1836
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Diagnosis
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