Jaegerscalpellum politum

Taxonavigation

Familia: Scalpellidae
Genus: †Jaegerscalpellum
Species: Jaegerscalpellum politum

Name

• Jaegerscalpellum politum (Darwin, 1851): 54
  • Original genus: Pollicipes
  • Geological age: Cretaceous; upper Albian, Diploceras cristatum Zone
  • Type locality: unknown, probably Gault Formation
  • Typus: Bowerbank Collection, lost
  • Distribution: Gault Formation, Folkstone, Kent, England
  • ZooBank: 52EC8FDA-1C83-441A-AE90-9D2DB8B76694

References

• Darwin, C. 1851. A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain. Paleontographical Society, London. 88 pp. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 54, original description as Pollicipes politus]

• Gale, A.S. 2019. Thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) of Hannover, northern Germany. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 130(6): 659–672. DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.03.002 Reference page.  [See p. 669, as Jaegerscalpellum politum, generic re-assignment]
• Withers, T.H. 1935: Catalog of fossil Cirripedia in the Department of Geology of the British Museum. Vol. 2, Cretaceous. London, British Museum, 433 p. Reference page.  [See p. 263, as Scalpellum (Arcoscalpellum) politum, generic re-assignment]