Thoracica Darwin, 1854

Buckeridge, John S., Jagt, John W. M. & Speijer, Robert P., 2008, Verruca punica, a new species of verrucomorph barnacle (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the Lower Danian (Palaeocene) of Tunisia, Zootaxa 1844, pp. 37-46 : 38

Superorder Thoracica Darwin, 1854

Remarks. Buckeridge & Newman (2006) have recently revised the systematics of the Thoracica , and proposed four very distinct orders. Within the Sessilia , the suborder Verrucomorpha was demonstrated to have had a scalpelliform ancestor, arising from this order via the Brachylepadomorpha Withers, 1923 during the Middle to Late Jurassic.