Taxonavigation

Familia: Scalpellidae
Genus: Diotascalpellum
Species: †Diotascalpellum fossula

Name

• Diotascalpellum fossula (Darwin, 1851): 24
  • Original genus: Scalpellum
  • Geological range: Cretaceous; Campanian
  • Type locality: Norwich, Norfolk
  • Typus: Syntype BMNH In.13654
  • Distribution:UK, Belgium, Germany
  • ZooBank: 9E9547C0-D974-4D04-9A1D-AD811B69659B

References

• 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. 24, original description as Scalpellum fossula]

• 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. 32, as Diotascalpellum fossula, generic re-assignment]
• Gale, A.S. 2020. Cirripedes (Thoracica, Crustacea) from the Cretaceous (Albian and Cenomanian) of Texas and Oklahoma, USA. Cretaceous Research, 115: in press. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104556 Reference page.  [See p. , emended species list]
• Withers, T.H. 1922. An exceptionally complete example of the cirripede Scalpellum fossula, Darwin. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 9, 9(54): 656–657. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 656, as Scalpellum (Arcoscalpellum) fossula, articulated specimen]
• 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.  [See pl. i, fig. 19]
• 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. 223, as Scalpellum (Arcoscalpellum) fossula, re-description, synonymy, distribution, establishment of Arcoscalpellum fossulum Group]
• Zullo, V.A. 1990. Supplementary description and phylogenetic significance of Arcoscalpellum conradi (Gabb) (Cirripedia:Scalpellidae) from the Paleocene Vincentown Formation of New Jersey. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(3): 663-672. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 671, discussion of Arcoscalpellum fossula Group]