Eolepas

Taxonavigation

Ordine: †Eolepadomorpha
Familia: †Eolepadidae
Genus: †Eolepas
Species (10†): †E. bathonica – †E. carniensis – †E. fimbriata – †E. moorei – †E. novazelandiae – †E. oolitica – †E. quenstedti – †E. rhaetica – †E. rhomboidalis – †E. strambergensis

Name

• †Eolepas Withers, 1928: 65
  • Gender: neuter
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Geological range: Triassic (Carnian) through Cretaceous (Hauterivian)
  • Type species:: Pollicipes rhaeticus Moore, 1861: 512, original designation
  • ZooBank: 5D15D2DA-9AA1-4DE8-97F7-39DBF8BC1DD3

References

• Withers, T.H. 1928. Catalogue of fossil Cirripedia in the Department of Geology, I. Triassic and Jurassic. British Museum (Natural History), London, 154 p. Reference page.  [See p. 65, original description]

• Chan, B.K-K., Dreyer, N., Gale, A.S., Glenner, H., Ewers-Saucedo, C., Perez-Losada, M., Kolbasov, G.A., Crandall, K.A. & Høeg, J.T. 2021. The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193(3): 789–846. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160 Reference page.  [See p. 39]
• Gale, A.S. 2024. British Fossil Cirripedia. Part 1. Introduction. Iblomorpha, Eolepadomorpha, Archaeolepadomorpha and Pollicipedomorpha. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 178(668): 1–104. DOI: org/10.1080/02693445.2024.2420447 Reference page.  [See p. 38, definition, list of species]
• Gale, A.S., Keupp, H. & Schweigert, G. 2022. Phosphatic ciripedes from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Germany, and a revision of the family Eolepadidae Buckeridge, 1983 (Crustacea, Thoracica). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 304(1)ː 105–113. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2022/1058 Reference page. 
• Kočí, T., Kočová Veselská, M., Gale, A.S, Jagt, J.W.M., & Skupien, P. 2015: Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous stalked barnacles (Cirripedia, genus Eolepas Withers, 1928) from Štramberk, Moravia (Czech Republic). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 275(2): 233–247. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2015/0464 Reference page.