Floripatella orphyne Billings 1865 (mollusk)

Tergomya - Archinacellida - Archinacellidae

Alternative combinations: Metoptoma orphyne, Palaeacmaea orphyne

Full reference: E. Billings. 1865. Palaeozoic fossils, volume 1. Geological Survey of Canada 1-426

Belongs to Floripatella according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Billings 1865, Ulrich and Scofield 1897 and Webers and Yochelson 1999

Sister taxa: Floripatella humilis, Floripatella irregularis, Floripatella quebecensis, Floripatella rousseaui

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Floripatella orphyne in the database

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