Curious eroded depressions,most resembling an eye shedding an elongate tear,are found in gently sloping,intertidal,carbonate-rich arenite outcropping on the sea coast near Lakes Entrance,Victoria,southeast Australia.T...
Supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDA1103040102);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31172054)
A new species of deep-water barnacle that belongs to the family Scalpellidae is described from the South China Sea. A rcoscalpellum liui sp. nov. is morphologically similar to A rcoscalpellum gryllum Zevina,but differ...
Cirripede-like organisms have their origins in the Palaeozoic,but until the Cainozoic,were represented primarily by pedunculated forms,such as the Scalpelliformes.Acorn barnacles(Balanomorpha)are first recorded afte...