Striascalpellum martini

Taxonavigation

Familia: †Cretiscalpellidae
Genus: †Striascalpellum
Species: Striascalpellum martini

Name

• Striascalpellum martini (Withers, 1926): 8
  • Original genus: Calantica (Titanolepas)
  • Geological age: Cretaceous (upper Senonian)
  • Symbiont: epibiont on ammonoids
  • Type locality: Niobrara Chalk, 10 mi. SW of Gove City, on Plum Creek, Gove County, Kansas, USA
  • Typus: Holotype BMNH In.21941
  • Distribution: Kansas, known only from holotype
  • ZooBank: 8DC5B546-4B96-41FB-A8EA-A49016C3D0CD

References

• Withers, T.H. 1926: A new cirriped from the Niobrara Cretaceous of Kansas. Annals and magazine of natural history ser. 9 17(97): 7-11. DOI: 10.1080/00222932608633367 Reference page.  [See p. 8, as Calantica (Titanolepas) martini, original description]

• 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. 257, as Striascalpellum martini, generic re-assignment]
• Gale, A.S. & Sørensen, A.M. 2015. Taxonomy and palaeoecology of thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from a Campanian rocky shoreline at Ivö Klack, southern Sweden. Cretaceous Research 54: 212–242. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2014.09.004 Reference page.  [See p. 220, as Titanolepas martini, discussion]
• 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. 138, discussion]