Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Full reference: C. L. Powell and D. L. Geiger. 2019. Two new Miocene limpets (Fissurellidae) from southern California, with notes on other fossil occurrences of the family in northwestern North America. PaleoBios 36(46304):1-7
Belongs to Fissurella according to C. L. Powell and D. L. Geiger 2019
Sister taxa: Fissurella (Balboaina), Fissurella (Carcellesia), Fissurella (Clypidella), Fissurella (Cremides), Fissurella (Fissurella), Fissurella barbadensis, Fissurella behri, Fissurella bipunctata, Fissurella costaria, Fissurella cumingi, Fissurella fluviamariana, Fissurella gibba, Fissurella labiata, Fissurella mississipiensis, Fissurella mus, Fissurella nimbosa, Fissurella nodosa, Fissurella perrini, Fissurella rixfordi, Fissurella rosea, Fissurella scobinellata, Fissurella squamosa, Fissurella volcano
Type specimen: LACMIP 14847, a shell. Its type locality is LACMIP 31511, which is in a Langhian marine sandstone in the Topanga Canyon Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution: found only at LACMIP 31511
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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