Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanomorpha 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Thecostraca
Subclassis: Cirripedia
Superordo: Thoracica
Ordo: Sessilia
Subordo: Balanomorpha

Superfamilia: †Pachydiadematoidea
Genus: †Pachydiadematidae
Genus: †Pachydiadema
Species: †P. cretaceum

Name

Pachydiadema Withers, 1935: 389

  • Considered by Buckeridge, 1995: 261, to not bear convincing features of balanomorphs. Likely is either brachylepadomorph or unusual scalpellomorph. Most other authors consider it as Balanomorpha? incertae sedis (Gale & Sørensen, 2014)
  • Original status: valid subgenus
  • Type species: Catophragmus (Pachydiadema) cretaceum Withers, 1935: 390, by original designation
  • ZooBank: 573B095C-71B0-439A-AA16-2EF81AE9CB22

References

  • 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. 389, as Catophragmus (Pachydiadema), original description]

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