Witherscalpellum aptiensis

Familia: †Cretiscalpellidae
Genus: †Witherscalpellum
Species: †Witherscalpellum aptiensis

• Witherscalpellum aptiensis (Withers, 1935): 147
  • Original genus: Cretiscalpellum
  • Stratigraphic and stratigraphic range: Cretaceous (upper Aptian); southern England, reported from type locality only
  • Type locality: Aptian; Bargate Stone, Lydding, England
  • Typus: Holotype Museum of Practical Geology, BGS 49533, now part of NHMUK
  • ZooBank: 7191554D-AFB0-462E-82EA-4515639C55BC

• Withers, T.H. 1935: Catalog of fossil Cirripedia in the Department of Geology of the British Museum. Vol. 2, Cretaceous. London, British Museum, 433 p. Reference page.  [see p. 147, original description as Cretiscalpellum aptiensis]

• Gale, A.S. 2019. Thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) of Hannover, northern Germany. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 130(6): 659–672. DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.03.002 Reference page.  [See p. 5, species list]
• Gale, A.S. 2020. New thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Cretaceous of Europe and North Africa. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 295(3): 243–282. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2020/0886 Reference page.  [See p. 251, generic re-assignment as Witherscalpellum aptiensis]
• Gale, A.S. 2025. British Fossil Cirripedia. Part 2. Calanticomorpha, Scalpellomorpha. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 179(671): 105–193. DOI: 10.1080/0269345.2025.2494375 Reference page.  [See p. 119, additional material, supplementary description]

• BHL bibliography
• Witherscalpellum aptiensis – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Witherscalpellum aptiensis.
• ION
• Witherscalpellum aptiensis in the World Register of Marine Species