Alabamalepas cookei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coronuloidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Kingdom: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Subordo: Balanomorpha Superfamilia: Coronuloidea

Familia: Platylepadidae
Genus: †Alabamalepas
Species: †

Alabamalepas cookei Perreault, Collareta & Buckeridge, 2025:60
- Stratigraphic and geological range: Oligocene (Rupelian); Alabama and South Carolina
- Type locality: Henry V. Howe locality 307 M-1162; 1½ miles south of Perdue Hill, Monroe County, Alabama, bed 3; Marianna Formation, 8 feet above Red Bluff; collector H.V. Howe, 1941. Coordinates SW1/4, sec 7, T6N,R6E
- Typus: Holotype carina, LSUMG-I-10843
- ZooBank: AE883A97-ECE7-4AE2-8EAF-4D233CEEEDB3

Perreault, R.T., Collareta, A. & Buckeridge, J.S. 2025. New fossils from the Oligocene of the southeastern U.S.A. support an ancient origin for the platylepad turtle barnacles (Thoracica, Coronuloidea). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Abhandlungen. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/1264 Reference page. [See p. 60, original description]