Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Full reference: T. J. DeVries. 2008. Pliocene and Pleistocene Fissurella BruguiƩre, 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) aranea, Fissurella (Fissurella) concolor, Fissurella (Fissurella) crassa, 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 98474, a shell. Its type locality is Yauca roadcut, which is in a Tortonian coastal siliciclastic in the Pisco Formation of Peru.
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution: found only at Yauca roadcut
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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