Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Full reference: J. O. Nomland. 1917. The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10(14):191-254
Belongs to Fissuridea according to J. O. Nomland 1917
Sister taxa: Diodora (Diodora), Diodora arnoldi, Diodora aspera, Diodora auroraensis, Diodora cayenensis, Diodora chipolana, Diodora corbicula, Diodora derbyi, Diodora diadala, Diodora fragilis, Diodora galeata, Diodora gibberula, Diodora graeca, Diodora granifera, Diodora griscomi, Diodora henekeni, Diodora immortalis, Diodora inaequalis, Diodora jaumei, Diodora jukesii, Diodora lincolnensis, Diodora lineata, Diodora listeri, Diodora meta, Diodora minuta, Diodora mus, Diodora occidua, Diodora octogona, Diodora pamlicoensis, Diodora parviforata, Diodora patagonica, Diodora penderensis, Diodora pumpellyi, Diodora quadriradiata, Diodora redimicula, Diodora ruppelli, Diodora singaporensis, Diodora subcostaria, Diodora tenebrosa, Diodora ticaonica, Diodora viridula, Diodora vredenburgi, Fissuridea alticosta, Fissuridea marylandica, Fissuridea subelliptica, Fissuridea nassula, Elegidion audax, Diodora (Elegidion) marshallensis
Type specimen: UCMP 11100. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 2991 - Zapato Creek, which is in a Pliocene marine horizon in the Etchegoin Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer-carnivore
Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. 2991 - Zapato Creek
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