Fissuridea subelliptica Nomland 1916 (snail)

Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae

Full reference: J. O. Nomland. 1916. Fauna from the lower Pliocene at Jacalitos Creek and Waltham Canyon, Fresno County, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 9(6):199-214

Belongs to Fissuridea according to J. O. Nomland 1916

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, Diodora (Elegidion) marshallensis, Elegidion audax, Fissuridea marylandica, Fissuridea alticosta, Fissuridea nassula, Fissuridea unica

Type specimen: Its type locality is UCMP loc2664, which is in a Pliocene marginal marine sandstone/conglomerate in the Jacalitos Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer-carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. 2664

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