Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Full reference: L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder. 1987. Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61:113-283
Belongs to Diodora according to L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Diodora (Diodora), Diodora arnoldi, Diodora aspera, 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 tenebrosa, Diodora ticaonica, Diodora viridula, Diodora vredenburgi, Diodora (Elegidion) marshallensis, Elegidion audax, Fissuridea marylandica, Fissuridea alticosta, Fissuridea nassula, Fissuridea unica, Fissuridea subelliptica
Type specimen: USNM 204019
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer-carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (2: South Carolina, Virginia collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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