POLLICIPOMORPHA, Chan & Dreyer & Gale & Glenner & Ewers-Saucedo & Pérez-Losada & Kolbasov & Crandall & Høeg, 2021

Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193, pp. 789-846 : 828

† ORDER POLLICIPOMORPHA ORD. NOV. (JURASSIC–RECENT)

Diagnosis: Capitulum includes a large number (20– 40+) of imbricating, secondary lateral plates, which decrease in size towards the basal margin.

Comment: This group was abundant and widespread in the Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous ( Zeugmatolepadidae ; see Gale, 2014a, 2020a). Extant Pollicipedidae ( Capitulum and Pollicipes ) extend back into the Cretaceous and, with Lithotryidae , form a group that always cluster closely together in the molecular analyses.