Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Alternative spelling: Diodorinae
Parent taxon: Fissurellinae according to B. M. Landau et al. 2016
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Harzhauser 2002, Knight et al. 1960, Lozouet et al. 2001, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Amblychilepas, Atractotrema, Cosmetalepas, Fissurella, Macroschisma, Medusafissurella, Megatebennus
Subtaxa: Diodora Megathura Pseudofissurella Stromboli
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Argentina (1), Australia (1), the Bahamas (3), Bermuda (3), Brazil (2), Cayman Islands (2), Costa Rica (4), Cuba (3), Djibouti (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (3), Greece (1), Haiti (2), Ireland (1), Italy (2), Jamaica (2), Japan (4), Kenya (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Mayotte (1), Mexico (11), Morocco (3), Namibia (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Papua New Guinea (2), Peru (2), Saudi Arabia (6), South Africa (4), Spain (3), United States (84: California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1), United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Cyprus (1), Ecuador (1), Greece (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Jamaica (5), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), South Africa (6), Spain (6), Trinidad and Tobago (11), the United Kingdom (1), United States (28: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (10)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Austria (6), Belgium (1), Brazil (6), Chile (3), Cyprus (2), the Dominican Republic (1), France (2), Germany (1), Greece (2), Grenada (2), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), the Marshall Islands (3), Moldova (6), Morocco (2), Palau (1), Panama (1), Poland (3), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (27: California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of Japan (1), United States (8: Mississippi, North Carolina)
• Eocene of France (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (50: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Belgium (3), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (1), United States (11: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland)
• Cretaceous of South Africa (1), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 408 collections including 471 occurrences