Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae

Full reference: T. J. DeVries. 2008. Pliocene and Pleistocene Fissurella Bruguiére, 1789 (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae) from Southern Peru. The Veliger 50(2):129-148

Belongs to Fissurella (Fissurella) according to T. J. DeVries 2008

Sister taxa: Fissurella (Fissurella) concolor, Fissurella (Fissurella) crassa, Fissurella (Fissurella) geoglypha, Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata, Fissurella (Fissurella) limbata, Fissurella (Fissurella) maxima, Fissurella (Fissurella) mcleani, Fissurella (Fissurella) mexicana, Fissurella (Fissurella) perisca, Fissurella (Fissurella) peruviana, Fissurella (Fissurella) pulchra

Type specimen: UWBM 98479, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at DV 1254-1-2, DV 1628 (Unit I+II) [Huacllaco beds] (Pliocene of Peru)

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