Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Parent taxon: Fissurellidae according to J. A. Todd 2001
See also Abbott 1974, Clark and Arnold 1923, Durham 1944, Farinati 1985, Harris and Palmer 1947, Kiel et al. 2010, Knight et al. 1960, Ladd 1982, Sepkoski 2002, Squires and Goedert 1996 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Altrix, Austriacopsis, Emarginulinae, Fissurellinae, Hemitoma, Leurolepas, Lucapina, Lucapinella, Nesta, Parmophorus, Subemarginula, Zeidora
Subtaxa: Puncturella (Cranopsis) Puncturella (Fissurisepta) Puncturella (Puncturella) Puncturella (Rixa) Puncturella barksdalei Puncturella conica Puncturella cooperi Puncturella delosi Puncturella galeata Puncturella jacksonensis Puncturella longifissa Puncturella mcleani Puncturella multistriata Puncturella noachina Puncturella punctocostata Puncturella rothi
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Canada (4: British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Quebec), Greenland (4), Iceland (2), United States (36: Alaska, California, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (2), Jamaica (3), Japan (4), Panama (1), United States (2: California), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2), United States (8: Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Australia (1), Greenland (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: California)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 77 collections including 95 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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