Floripatella rousseaui Yochelson 1988 (mollusk)

Tergomya - Archinacellida - Archinacellidae

Full reference: E. L. Yochelson. 1988. A new genus of Patellacea (Gastropoda) from the Middle Ordovician of Utah: the oldest known example of the superfamily. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir 44:195-200

Belongs to Floripatella according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Yochelson 1988

Sister taxa: Floripatella humilis, Floripatella irregularis, Floripatella orphyne, Floripatella quebecensis

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Floripatella rousseaui in the database

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