Diodora stillwaterensis Weaver and Van Winkle Palmer 1922 (keyhole limpet)

Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae

Alternative combination: Fissuridea stillwaterensis

Full reference: C. E. Weaver and K. Van Winkle Palmer. 1922. Fauna from the Eocene of Washington. University of Washington Publications in Geology 1(3):1-56

Belongs to Diodora according to R. L. Squires and T. A. Deméré 1991

See also Weaver and Van Winkle Palmer 1922

Sister taxa: Diodora (Diodora), Diodora arnoldi, Diodora aspera, Diodora auroraensis, Diodora cayenensis, Diodora chipolana, Diodora corbicula, Diodora densiclathrata, Diodora derbyi, Diodora diadala, Diodora fragilis, Diodora galeata, Diodora gibberula, Diodora graeca, Diodora granifera, Diodora griscomi, Diodora henekeni, Diodora immortalis, Diodora inaequalis, Diodora jaumei, Diodora jukesii, Diodora lincolnensis, Diodora lineata, Diodora listeri, Diodora meta, Diodora minuta, Diodora murina, Diodora mus, Diodora occidua, Diodora octogona, Diodora pamlicoensis, Diodora parviforata, Diodora patagonica, Diodora penderensis, Diodora pumpellyi, Diodora quadriradiata, Diodora redimicula, Diodora ruppelli, Diodora singaporensis, Diodora subcostaria, Diodora subelliptica, Diodora tenebrosa, Diodora ticaonica, Diodora unica, Diodora viridula, Diodora vredenburgi, Elegidion audax, Diodora (Elegidion) marshallensis, Fissuridea nassula, Fissuridea marylandica, Fissuridea alticosta

Type specimen: Its type locality is UW 319, which is in a Bartonian marine horizon in the Cowlitz Formation of Washington

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer-carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (3: California, Washington collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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