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Pycnolepas ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4805887	https://www.gbif.org/species/4805887
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22184	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22184

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Maxillopoda : Sessilia : Brachylepadidae : Pycnolepas

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
subphylum	Crustacea	Brünnich 1772
class	Maxillopoda	Dahl 1956
subclass	Cirripedia
superorder	Thoracica
order	Sessilia	Lamarck 1818
suborder	Brachylepadomorpha	Withers 1923
family	Brachylepadidae	Woodward 1901
genus	Pycnolepas	Withers 1914

Scientific Name

Pycnolepas Withers, 1914

Name Published In

Withers, T. H. 1914. Some Cretacesous and Tertiary cirripedes referred to Pollicipes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Being a Continuation of the 'Magazine of Botany and Zoology', and of Louden and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History', Series 8 14(80): 167-206.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pycnolepas	genus	belongs to Brachylepadidae	stated with evidence	Collins, 1980
Pycnolepas	genus	belongs to Cirripedia	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Pycnolepas	genus	belongs to Brachylepadidae	stated with evidence	Jagt et al., 2007

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

152 - 145 Ma
Late Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 20.4 Ma
Miocene

Motility

stationary, attached, epibiont (based on Cirripedia)

Vision

limited (based on Cirripedia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Cirripedia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pycnolepas articulata ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pycnolepas bruennichi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pycnolepas fimbriatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Pycnolepas ignabergensis ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pycnolepas industriosa ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pycnolepas landenica ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	59.2 Ma Paleocene	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Pycnolepas orientalis ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pycnolepas paronai ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Pycnolepas rigida ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	7	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pycnolepas scalaris ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pycnolepas tithonica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1914	Pycnolepas Withers
1980	Pycnolepas Collins p. 22
2000	Pycnolepas Carriol and Collins p. 143
2002	Pycnolepas Sepkoski, Jr.
2007	Pycnolepas Jagt et al. p. 34

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Collins J. S. H. (1980) A new Pycnolepas (Cirripedia) from the (?) Lower Aptian of Alexander Island, British Antarctic Survey Bulletin 50, 21-26

Carriol R.-P., Collins J. S. H. (2000) New records of cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Albian of Yonne (France), Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 27, 141-145

Jagt J. W. M., Zonova T. D., et al (2007) A review of the brachylepadomorph cirripede genus Pycnolepas, including the first record of an Early Cretaceous species from the Russian Far East, Zootaxa 1545, 33-47

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) 14 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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