Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Alternative spelling: Fissurella (Lucapina)
Synonym: Foraminella Sowerby 1835
Parent taxon: Fissurellidae according to J. A. Todd 2001
See also Bassler 1953, Knight et al. 1960, Lozouet et al. 2001 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Altrix, Austriacopsis, Emarginulinae, Fissurellinae, Hemitoma, Leurolepas, Lucapinella, Nesta, Parmophorus, Puncturella, Subemarginula, Zeidora
Subtaxa: Lucapina constantiae Lucapina sowerbii Lucapina suffusa
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Cayman Islands (2 collections), Colombia (1), Haiti (1), United States (10: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Jamaica (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
Total: 16 collections including 19 occurrences
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