Concavus
Concavus Temporal range: Oligocene - Recent | |
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Fossil of Concavus concavus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Maxillopoda |
Subclass: | Thecostraca |
Infraclass: | Cirripedia |
Order: | Sessilia |
Family: | Balanidae |
Genus: | Concavus Newman, 1981 |
Concavus is a genus of barnacles. [1]
Species
- Concavus concavus (Bronn, 1831) †
- Concavus crassostricola Zullo, 1984
Fossil records
This genus is known in the fossil records from the Oligocene to the Quaternary (age range: from 28.4 to 0.012 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata of United States, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Algeria, France, Haiti, Madagascar, Panama, Colombia and Slovenia.[2]
References
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