Virgiscalpellum beisseli

Taxonavigation

Familia: Scalpellidae
Subfamilia: †Virgiscalpellinae
Genus: †Virgiscalpellum
†Species: Virgiscalpellum beisseli

Name

• Virgiscalpellum beisseli (Bosquet & Müller IN Bosquet, 1857: 7)
  • Original genus: Scalpellum
  • Geological age: Cretaceous (Senonian, upper Campanian)
  • Type locality: Bois d'Aix, Rhine Prov., Germany
  • Types: Lectotype pl. i, fig. 5 (selected by Withers, 1935: 285); specimen apparently lost
  • Distribution: England, northwestern Europe, Crimea
  • ZooBank: C3E2ADF3-D7B1-4AA0-848C-F643063FE266

Synonyms

• Scalpellum bosqueti Karakasch, 1903: 13
  • Synonymized in Withers, 1935: 285
  • ZooBank: FA9E2EA7-B7AF-449D-8B7A-49DB6E39CF51

References

• Bosquet, J.A.H. 1857. Notice sur quelques Cirripèdes récemment découverts dans le Terrain Crétacé du Duché de Limbourg. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen uitgegeven door de Hollandsche Maatschappij voor Wetenschappen te Haarlem, 2(13): 1–36. Reference page.  [See p. 7, as Scalpellum beisseli]

• Gale, A.S. 2020. New thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Cretaceous of Europe and North Africa. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 295(3): 243–282. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2020/0886 Reference page.  [See p. 261, discussion]
• Karakasch, N.I. 1903. Les cirripedes du terrain cretace de la Crimee. Travaux Société impériale des naturalistes de St;-Pétersbourg 31(5): 1–18. Reference page.  [See p. 13, as Scalpellum bosqueti]
• 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. 284, as Scalpellum (Virgiscalpellum) beisseli]