Gastropoda - Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Alternative spelling: Patela
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Patellinae according to N. Robin et al. 2016
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Hendy et al. 2008, Kase 1984, Kensley and Pether 1986, Knight et al. 1960, Ladd 1966, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Sepkoski 2002, Tessier et al. 2004, van den Hoek Ostende et al. 2002 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Berlieria, Cymbula, Helcion
Subtaxa: Patella (Cymbula) Patella (Patella) Patella caerulea Patella candei Patella capulina Patella conoidea Patella costaria Patella costata Patella costulata Patella crasseradiata Patella crateriformis Patella deformis Patella duclosii Patella dulcis Patella flexuosa Patella glabra Patella granatina Patella granularis Patella granulata Patella gremblichi Patella hebertiana Patella hendeyi Patella hochstetteri Patella hoffmani Patella hollebeni Patella intermedia Patella jingguensis Patella laticostata Patella limatula Patella longicosta Patella mateoensis Patella nelsonensis Patella nigra Patella oculus Patella pennata Patella peronii Patella reussi Patella rimosa Patella scutatella Patella sheehani Patella sparsicostata Patella striatula Patella stuarti Patella subglabra Patella timorensis Patella traskii Patella ulyssiponensis Patella vulgata
Type: Patella vulgata
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (3), Chile (1), France (1), Italy (1), Morocco (8), Namibia (4), New Zealand (1), Pitcairn (1), Portugal (10), Saudi Arabia (4), South Africa (10), Spain (12)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Greece (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), South Africa (4), Spain (3)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Greece (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Poland (1), South Africa (1)
• Oligocene of Italy (1)
• Eocene of France (5), Romania (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (2), France (1), Greenland (3), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (2), Germany (2), Japan (3), New Zealand (3), the Russian Federation (2), United States (3: California, Delaware, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (3), Greenland (1), Italy (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tanzania (4)
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (2), Indonesia (3), Italy (6), New Zealand (3), United States (3: Alaska, California)
• Permian of Germany (1), Japan (1), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 138 collections including 206 occurrences
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