New finds of cirripeds from nearshore-shallow water deposits at Velim (the Lower Turonian) and discu
Abstract
A report on newly recovered specimens of Cirripedia (Burmeister, 1846) from the cliff facies at Velim (pocket Václav, Lower Turonian, southern margin of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin) is presented. More than 400 capitular plates (mostly fragmentary preserved) of cirripedes have been discovered in sieve residues of old material which was collected from 1972 to 1995 by Dr.
J. Žítt & Dr. O.
Nekvasilová. Study of newly recovered specimens has resulted in the confirmation of the occurrence of Titanolepas tuberculatum (Darwin), Cretiscalpellum striatum (Darwin), Cretiscalpellum glabrum (Roemer) and Arcoscalpellum angustatum (Geinitz).
The new record of Scalpellum sp. in the BCB is discussed. Whereas Cretiscalpellum glabrum (Roemer) and Arcoscalpellum angustatum (Geinitz) belong to common cirripede species in the BCB, Cretiscalpellum striatum (Darwin) and Titanolepas tuberculatum (Darwin) are rather rare in the respective area.
Carinal latera and scuta of C. striatum and one inframedian latus of A. angustatum from the BCB are reported herein for the first time. The work is dedicated to Dr.
Olga Nekvasilová and Dr. Jiří Žítt.