This paper describes the first record of the intertidal, tropical
tetraclitoid barnacle Tetraclita sp. cf. T. stalactifera (Lamarck, 1818) from
the middle Neogene of the Canary Islands. The barnacles were recovered as
isolated plates from a bioclastic volcanic agglomerate. Associated fauna includes patellid and neritid gastropods, and an oyster bank, which confirm a
shallow-water litoral setting. Living Tetraclita stalactifera is recorded from
tropical waters of the America, South Africa and the Arabian Sea; it is first
recorded as fossil from Plio-Pleistocene of Curaçao (Caribbean Sea,
Venezuela).
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