Toarcolepas

Taxonavigation

Ordine: †Eolepadomorpha
Familia: †Eolepadidae
Genus: †Toarcolepas
Species (1†): T. mutans

Name

• Toarcolepas Gale & Schweigert, 2016: 65
  • Gender: neuter
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Geological range: Jurassic; Toarcian to Kimmeridgian
  • Type species: Toarcolepas mutans Gale & Schweigert, 2016, by original designation
  • ZooBank: D8BD392B-3ACC-480C-932F-CEFEE94FC0DF

References

• Gale, A.S. & Schweigert, G. 2015. A new phosphatic-shelled cirripede (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Lower Jurassic of Germany - the oldest epiplanktonic barnacle. Palaeontology 59(1): 59–70. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12207 Reference page.  [See p. 65, 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. 
• Gale, A.S. 2024. British Fossil Cirripedia. Part 1. Introduction. Iblomorpha, Eolepadomorpha, Archaeolepadomorpha and Pollicipedomorpha. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 178(668): 1–104. DOI: org/10.1080/02693445.2024.2420447 Reference page.  [See p. 43, discussion]
• Gale, A.S., Keupp, H. & Schweigert, G. 2022. Phosphatic ciripedes from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Germany, and a revision of the family Eolepadidae Buckeridge, 1983 (Crustacea, Thoracica). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 304(1)ː 105–113. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2022/1058 Reference page.  [See p. 109, emended species list, discussion]