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Issue: Vol. 5583 No. 2: 3 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.2.9
Page range: 383-390
Abstract views: 168
PDF downloaded: 19

A new species of the cirripede genus Proverruca Withers, 1914 (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of northeastern Belgium

School of the Environment and Life Sciences; University of Portsmouth; Burnaby Building; Burnaby Road; Portsmouth PO1 3QL; UK; Department of Earth Sciences; The Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road; London SW7 5BD; UK
Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht; De Bosquetplein 6–7; 6211 KJ Maastricht; the Netherlands
Crustacea Cirripedia Proverrucidae Campanian Europe comparisons

Abstract

A new species of the cirripede genus Proverruca, P. ornata sp. nov., is described from the lower upper Campanian (Belemnitella woodi belemnite Zone) Zeven Wegen Member (Gulpen Formation) at Haccourt, province of Liège, northeastern Belgium. It displays remarkable variation in external sculpture during ontogeny.

 

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