Brachylepas Woodward and Virgiscalpellum Withers (Cirripedia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Arkansas
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Paleontology
- Vol. 61 (1) , 101-111
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000028237
Abstract
Brachylepas americana n. sp. is described from abundant and well-preserved capitular and basal whorl plates from a littoral facies in the basal part of an Upper Cretaceous (upper Campanian) conglomerate questionably assigned to the Brownstown Formation in Hot Spring County, Arkansas. The new species resembles the European littoral Campanian–Maastrichtian species B. guascoi (Bosquet), and differs markedly from the only other known American species, B. angulosa Collins, from the Upper Cretaceous middle Ripley Formation of Mississippi. A few juvenile carinae of Virgiscalpellum may represent V. gabbi apertus Collins, previously known from the Ripley and basal Prairie Bluff Formations in Mississippi.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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