Nacella Schumacher 1817 (limpet)

Gastropoda - Patellida - Nacellidae

Parent taxon: Nacellidae according to S. N. Nielsen 2013

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, DeVries 2007, Gordillo et al. 2005 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Cellana

Subtaxa: Nacella (Nacella) Nacella (Patinigera) Nacella baylei Nacella mytilina

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (12)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Peru (1)

• Pliocene of Chile (1), Peru (2)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Chile (1), Indonesia (1), Peru (3)

• Eocene of Australia (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (4)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (5)

Total: 33 collections including 42 occurrences

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