Fissurella costaria Deshayes 1824 (snail)

Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae

Full reference: G. P. Deshayes. 1824. Description des Coquilles Fossiles des Environs de Paris, Tome Second: Mollusques 1-80

Belongs to Fissurella according to G. P. Deshayes 1824

Sister taxa: Fissurella (Balboaina), Fissurella (Carcellesia), Fissurella (Clypidella), Fissurella (Cremides), Fissurella (Fissurella), Fissurella barbadensis, Fissurella behri, Fissurella bipunctata, 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 specimen: Its type locality is Grignon (Deshayes collection), which is in a Lutetian open shallow subtidal sandstone/sandstone in France

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Grignon (Deshayes collection)

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