Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Alternative combinations: Crepidula (Ianacus) plana, Crepidula plana triangula
Belongs to Crepidula according to L. W. Ward 1998
See also Brown and Pilsbry 1911, Gardner 1947, Jung 1969, Martin 1904, Olsson 1922 and Richards 1943
Sister taxa: Calyptraea (Crepidula) protea, Crepidula (Crepidula), Crepidula (Garnotia), Crepidula (Ianacus), Crepidula (Janacus), Crepidula (Spirocrypta), Crepidula adunca, Crepidula aeola, Crepidula aplysioides, Crepidula bractea, Crepidula convexa, Crepidula cymbaeformis, Crepidula depressa, Crepidula deprima, Crepidula diminutiva, Crepidula dumosa, Crepidula excavata, Crepidula falconeri, Crepidula fornicata, Crepidula gatunensis, Crepidula gibbosa, Crepidula incurva, Crepidula iniquita, Crepidula lessonii, Crepidula lirata, Crepidula maculosa, Crepidula naticarum, Crepidula navicula, Crepidula nivea, Crepidula norrisianum, Crepidula nummaria, Crepidula onyx, Crepidula pabloensis, Crepidula perforans, Crepidula praerupta, Crepidula princeps, Crepidula rostralis, Crepidula rugosa, Crepidula rugosa, Crepidula saugusensis, Crepidula sookensis, Crepidula tainohataensis, Crepidula ungana, Crepidula unguiformis
Type specimen: USNM 136061, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Panama (1), United States (62: Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of United States (11: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of Colombia (3), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Panama (5), Trinidad and Tobago (3), United States (21: Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Oligocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
Total: 118 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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