Proverruca Withers 1914

Genus Proverruca Withers, 1914 Type species. Proverruca vinculum Withers, 1914. Included species. In addition to the type species, Proverruca cancellata Withers, 1935, Proverruca nodosa Withers, 1935, Proverruca laurae Withers, 1923, Proverruca dentifer Gale, in Gale & Sørensen, 2015, Proverruca anglica Gale, 2020, Proverruca minuta Gale, 2025, Proverruca cenomanica Gale, 2025 and Proverruca ornata sp. nov. Diagnosis. As for family. Remarks. Proverruca is a very distinctive Late Cretaceous genus and occurs as a widespread, but uncommon, minority element in chalk (Cenomanian-Maastrichtian) cirripede faunas. It also occurs in nearshore deposits.