Pycnolepas

Taxonavigation

Stem-Group Verrucomorpha
Familiaː Pycnolepadidae
Genus: †Pycnolepas
Species (4): P. batchelorum – P. industriosa – P. rigida – P. scalaris

Nomen dubium (1): P. orientalis

Name

• Pycnolepas Withers, 1914: 170
  • Gender: neuter
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Geological range: Cretaceous, Albian through Maastrichtian
  • Type species:: Pollicipes rigidus Sowerby, 1836: 335, by original designation
  • ZooBank: 304B39DE-D1FA-441B-A1E0-CB38430350B3

References

• Withers, T.H. 1914: Some Cretaceous and Tertiary cirripedes referred to Pollicipes. Annals and magazine of natural history, ser. 8 14(80): 167-206. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 170, 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. 44]
• Gale, A.S. & Vidovic, S.U. 2023. The origins of major sessile cirripede groups; a revision of Cretaceous Balanomorpha and Verrucomorpha. Journal of Systematic Paleontology 21(1)ː 2258370. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2023.2258370 Reference page.  [See p. 22, discussion, species assignment, family re-assignment]
• Jagt, J.W.M., Zonova, T.D. & Jagt-Yazykova, E.A. 2007. A review of the brachylepadomorph genus Pycnolepas, including the first record of an Early Cretaceous species from the Russian Far East. Zootaxa, 1545: 33–47. Reference page.  [See p. 34]