Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Thecostraca > Subclass Cirripedia > Infraclass Thoracica

Thoracicalcarea Gale, 2015

Rank: Superorder
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Superorder group names

*Balanomorpha*	Pilsbry, 1916	taxonomically included in
*Calanticomorpha*	Chan, Dreyer, Gale, Glenner, Ewers-Saucedo, Pérez-Losada, Kolbasov, Crandall & Høeg, 2021	taxonomically included in
*Pollicipedomorpha*	Chan, Dreyer, Gale, Glenner, Ewers-Saucedo, Pérez-Losada, Kolbasov, Crandall & Høeg, 2021	taxonomically included in
*Scalpellomorpha*	Buckeridge & Newman, 2006	taxonomically included in
*Verrucomorpha*	Pilsbry, 1916	taxonomically included in

Children

Balanomorpha Pilsbry, 1916
Calanticomorpha Chan, Dreyer, Gale, Glenner, Ewers-Saucedo, Pérez-Losada, Kolbasov, Crandall & Høeg, 2021
Pollicipedomorpha Chan, Dreyer, Gale, Glenner, Ewers-Saucedo, Pérez-Losada, Kolbasov, Crandall & Høeg, 2021
Scalpellomorpha Buckeridge & Newman, 2006
Verrucomorpha Pilsbry, 1916

Literature

original description	Gale, A. S. (2015). Origin and phylogeny of the Cretaceous thoracican cirripede family Stramentidae. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 14(8): 653-702.
taxonomy source	Chan, B. K. K.; Dreyer, N.; Gale, A. S.; Glenner, H.; Ewers-Saucedo, C.; Pérez-Losada, M.; Kolbasov, G. A.; Crandall, K. A.; Høeg, J. T. (2021). The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.