Proverruca Withers, 1914

Gale, Andrew S. & Jagt, John W. M., 2025, A new species of the cirripede genus Proverruca Withers, 1914 (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of northeastern Belgium, Zootaxa 5583 (2), pp. 383-390 : 386

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5583.2.9
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14797291
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scientific name	Proverruca Withers, 1914
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Genus Proverruca Withers, 1914

Type species. Proverruca vinculum Withers, 1914 .

Included species. In addition to the type species, Proverruca cancellata Withers, 1935 , Proverruca nodosa Withers, 1935 , Proverruca laurae Withers, 1923 , Proverruca dentifer Gale , in Gale & Sørensen, 2015, Proverruca anglica Gale, 2020 , Proverruca minuta Gale, 2025 , Proverruca cenomanica Gale, 2025 and Proverruca ornata sp. nov.

Diagnosis. As for family.

Remarks. Proverruca is a very distinctive Late Cretaceous genus and occurs as a widespread, but uncommon, minority element in chalk (Cenomanian-Maastrichtian) cirripede faunas. It also occurs in nearshore deposits.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Maxillopoda
Order	Sessilia
Family	Proverrucidae

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