Patelloida Quoy 1834 (limpet)

Gastropoda - Patellida - Lottiidae

Parent taxon: Lottiidae according to J. A. Todd 2001

See also Ladd 1982, Lindberg and Marincovich 1988, Lindberg and Squires 1990, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Sepkoski 2002, Short and Potter 1987 and Wilson 1993

Sister taxa: Acmaea, Erginus, Lottia, Lottiinae, Notoacmea, Tecturinae

Subtaxa: Patelloida alticostata Patelloida ceciliana Patelloida cryptalirata Patelloida gradatus Patelloida inginis Patelloida mimula Patelloida pustulata Patelloida pyramidalis Patelloida saccharina Patelloida tejonensis Patelloida triquetrus Patelloida vokesi

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), the Bahamas (2), Cayman Islands (1), Chile (1), Jamaica (1), Panama (1), United States (1: Florida), Vanuatu (2), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene of United States (1: Alaska)

• Oligocene of Italy (1)

• Eocene of United States (15: California, Oregon, Washington)

• Cretaceous of Japan (1)

Total: 32 collections including 41 occurrences

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