Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coronuloidea 

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
Infraordo: Neobalanoformes
Superfamilia: Coronuloidea

Familia: Chelonibiidae
Subfamilia: †Protochelonibiinae
Genus: †Protochelonibia
†Species: Protochelonibia melleni

Name

Protochelonibia melleni (Zullo, 1982): 3

  • Original genus: Chelonibia
  • Geological age: lower Oligocene (Rupelian)
  • Type locality: Oligocene (Rupelian); Byram Formation, Vicksburg Group, northwest bank of Tallahala Creek, NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 33, T.2 N., R.9 E., Smith County, Mississippi
  • Types: Holotype MSU 3260; paratypes MSU 3261-3264
  • Distribution: US Gulf Coastal Plain, Mississippi; Rupelian, southwest Germany
  • ZooBank: 2EB3351E-417F-4A78-91E3-A784E5A195BB

References

  • Zullo, V.A. 1982. A new species of the turtle barnacle Chelonibia Leach, 1817, (Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the Oligocene Mint Spring and Byram Formations of Mississippi. Mississippi Geology, 2(3): 1–6. (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 3, original description as Chelonibia melleni]

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