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Archaeolepadomorpha

Archaeolepadomorpha is an extinct order of barnacles in the class Thecostraca. There are at least 3 families and more than 40 described species in Archaeolepadomorpha.

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Archaeolepadomorpha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Thecostraca
Subclass: Cirripedia
Infraclass: Thoracica
Superorder: Thoracicalcarea
Order: †Archaeolepadomorpha
Chan et al., 2021

Archaeolepadomorpha is an extinct order of barnacles in the class Thecostraca. There are at least 3 families and more than 40 described species in Archaeolepadomorpha.12

Families

These families belong to the order Archaeolepadomorpha:

  • Archaeolepadidae Gale, 2019
  • Myolepadidae Gale, 2015 in Gale & Sørensen, 2015
  • Stramentidae Withers, 1920
References

References

  1. "World Register of Marine Species, order Archaeolepadomorpha". Retrieved 2021-08-28.
  2. Chan, Benny K. K.; Dreyer, Niklas; Gale, Andy S.; Glenner, Henrik; et al. (2021). "The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (3): 789–846. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160. hdl:11250/2990967.