Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Parent taxon: Fissurellinae according to B. M. Landau et al. 2016
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, DeVries 2008, Frassinetti and Covacevich 1999, Knight et al. 1960, Perrilliat 1972, Sepkoski 2002, Stanton 1895, Todd 2001 and Weisbord 1962
Sister taxa: Amblychilepas, Atractotrema, Cosmetalepas, Diodorini, Macroschisma, Medusafissurella, Megatebennus
Subtaxa: Fissurella (Balboaina) Fissurella (Carcellesia) Fissurella (Clypidella) Fissurella (Cremides) Fissurella (Fissurella) Fissurella barbadensis Fissurella behri Fissurella bipunctata Fissurella costaria Fissurella cumingi Fissurella fluviamariana Fissurella gibba Fissurella labiata Fissurella mississipiensis Fissurella mus Fissurella nimbosa Fissurella nodosa Fissurella perrini Fissurella rixfordi Fissurella rosea Fissurella scobinellata Fissurella squamosa Fissurella stantoni Fissurella volcano
Type: Patella nimbosa
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Argentina (7), the Bahamas (3), Bermuda (8), Chile (5), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (1), Ecuador (1), Haiti (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (26), Morocco (9), Namibia (2), Peru (6), South Africa (5), Spain (5), United States (37: California, Florida), Venezuela (1), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (2), Peru (7), South Africa (6), United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (5)
• Neogene of Chile (1)
• Miocene of Chile (1), Cyprus (2), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Malta (1), Peru (1), United States (3: California, Maryland)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Mississippi)
• Eocene of France (6), the Russian Federation (1), United States (4: Alabama, California, Texas)
• Paleocene of Greenland (1), Nigeria (1), United States (6: Alabama, California, Louisiana)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Cameroon (1), New Zealand (2)
• Jurassic of United States (1: California)
Total: 183 collections including 209 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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