Regioscalpellum maximum

Taxonavigation

Familia: Scalpellidae
Subfamilia: Scalpellinae
Genus: Regioscalpellum
Species: †Regioscalpellum maximum

Name

• Regioscalpellum maximum (Sowerby, 1829): 222
  • Original genus: Pollicipes
  • Geological age: Cretaceous; Coniacian to Maastrichtian
  • Type locality: Norwich, Norfolk, UK
  • Typus: Syntype BMNH In.13655
  • Distribution: England, Belgium, Germany
  • ZooBank: 9A0BE9E7-6075-4DC5-9D33-B73357F7593E

References

• Sowerby, J. de C., 1829. The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or, Coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth. Volume VI. London. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 222, original description as Pollicipes maximus]

• 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. 56, as Pollicipes angelini]
• Gale, A.S. 2016. Phylogeny of the deep-sea cirripede family Scalpellidae (Crustacea, Thoracica) based on shell capitular plate morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 176(2): 266–304. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12321 Full article Reference page.  [See p. 33, as Regioscalpellum maximum, generic re-assignment]
• Kočová Veselská, M., Kočí, T. & Buckeridge, J.S. 2020. Cirripedes from hemipelagic deposits of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic), with remarks on an exceptionally well-preserved capitulum of Diotascalpellum angustatum (Geinitz, 1843). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 296(1-2)ː 129–145. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2020/0891 Reference page. 
• Withers, T.H. 1923: Die Cirripedien de Kreide Rügens. Abhandlungen aus dem geologisch-palaeontologischen Institut der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald III: 1-54. Reference page. 
• 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. 239, as Scalpellum (Arcoscalpellum) maximum, generic re-assignment]