Lepeta Gray 1842 (limpet)
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Gastropoda - Patellida - Lepetidae
Parent taxon: Lepetinae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Hendy et al. 2008, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Lepeta caeca
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec collections), Greenland (4), Sweden (1), United States (4: California, Oregon)
• Pliocene of Japan (1)
Total: 13 collections including 14 occurrences
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