Stipilepas Carriol, 2016

Carriol, René-Pierre, Bonde, Niels, Jakobsen, Sten L. & Høeg, Jens T., 2016, New stalked and sessile cirripedes from the Eocene Mo Clay, northwest Jutland (Denmark), Geodiversitas 38 (1), pp. 21-32 : 23

Genus Stipilepas Carriol , n. gen.

DIAGNOSIS. — Neolepadine with capitular plates ornamented by growth ridges crossed by fine longitudinals ribs; scutum with occludent portion divided into two parts by apico-basal line, lacking apico-basal ridge; width of median latus exceeding height; peduncle with scales that are wider than high.

TYPE SPECIES. — Stipilepas molerensis Carriol , n. sp.

ETYMOLOGY. — From Latin stipes (trunk), in allusion to the substrate.

AFFINITIES. — Stipilepas n. gen., similar to Ashinkailepas Yamaguchi, Newman & Hashimoto, 2004 , the other genus in the tribe Ashinkailepadini , has peduncle scales that are wider than high and are arranged in a small number of tiers, and capitular plates with longitudinal ornament. The new genus differs from Ashinkailepas in having much thinner external ornament and in a scutum in which the occludent portion is divided into two parts, lacking an apicobasal ridge; median latera are wider than high.