Pollicipes orientalis Kolosvary 1966

• Main Authors: Jagt, John W. M., Zonova, Tatiana D., Jagt-Yazykova, Elena A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Pedunculata; Pollicipedidae; Pollicipes; Pollicipes orientalis; Alexander Island; Antarctic; Lomonosova; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6247752; https://zenodo.org/record/6247752

Pycnolepas orientalis Kolosváry, 1966 ( nomen dubium ) Original description. Kolosváry (1966: 130, text-fig. 2). Type. Not indicated; current whereabouts of material unknown. Locality and stratigraphy. Kuznataj (= River Kuzna-chaj, Azerbaijan); Upper Cretaceous (exact level not specified). Remarks. The type lot (collected 1958; leg. V.G. Nikitin) of this form consists of isolated capitular valves; Kolosváry referred to these as scutum, carina, carinolaterale, tergum, rostrum and supralaterale. As noted by Collins (1980: 21), the ‘scutum’ in Kolosváry’s fig. 2 a clearly is a tergum, while the ‘tergum’ of his fig. 2 d is a scutum; that this was intentional can be seen from the description and reconstruction of the capitulum (Kolosváry, 1966: fig. 7). Kolosváry failed to explain why this form should have had three pairs of lateral valves, while the genus Pycnolepas has a single pair (see Withers, 1914, 1935). Alekseev (1979: 17) clarified the provenance of the material by noting that (translated), ‘In the same year, G. Koloshvary (Kolosvary, 1966) based on material from Caucasus, received from O.S. Vialov, briefly described the new species Pycnolepas orientalis (Azerbaijan, River Kuzna-chaj, Upper Cretaceous) and the new subspecies Zeugmatolepas mockleri armenicus (Armenia, Maastrichtian), without pictures giving only schematic drawings’. We consider it best to treat P . orientalis as a nomen dubium until the types are traced, or new material is collected, so as to allow a proper interpretation of this form. Occurrence. Known only from the type area; no subsequent records. : Published as part of Jagt, John W. M., Zonova, Tatiana D. & Jagt-Yazykova, Elena A., 2007, A review of the brachylepadomorph cirripede genus Pycnolepas, including the first record of an Early Cretaceous species from the Russian Far East *, pp. 33-47 in Zootaxa 1545 on page 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.177977 : {"references": ["Kolosvary, G. (1966) New fossil scalpellids from the USSR. Acta Biologica (Acta Universitatis Szegediensis), new series, 12, 129 - 133.", "Collins, J. S. H. (1980) A new Pycnolepas (Cirripedia) from the (?) Lower Aptian of Alexander Island. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin, 50, 21 - 26.", "Withers, T. H. (1914) Some Cretaceous and Tertiary Cirripedia referred to Pollicipes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (8) 14, 167 - 206.", "Withers, T. H. (1935) Catalogue of fossil Cirripedia in the Department of Geology. Vol. II. Cretaceous. Trustees of the British Museum [Natural History], London, xiv + 535 pp.", "Alekseev, A. S. (1979) Verkhnemelovye usonogie raki (Cirripedia, Thoracica) evropeiskoi chasti SSSR i sopredel'nykh raionov. Moskva, Moskovskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet im. M. V. Lomonosova, 488 pp. (unpublished PhD thesis)."]}