Patelloida gradatus Lindberg and Marincovich 1988 (limpet)

Gastropoda - Patellida - Lottiidae

Full reference: D. R. Lindberg and L. Marincovich. 1988. New Species of Limpets from the Neogene of Alaska (Patellogastropoda: Mollusca) . Arctic 41(3):167-172

Belongs to Patelloida according to D. R. Lindberg and L. Marincovich 1988

Sister taxa: Patelloida alticostata, Patelloida ceciliana, Patelloida cryptalirata, Patelloida inginis, Patelloida mimula, Patelloida pustulata, Patelloida pyramidalis, Patelloida saccharina, Patelloida tejonensis, Patelloida triquetrus, Patelloida vokesi

Type specimen: USNM 414578, a shell. Its type locality is USGS Cenozoic M8028, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in the Bear Lake Formation of Alaska.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at USGS Cenozoic M8028

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