Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Alternative combination: Fissuridea penderensis
Full reference: L.B. Kellum. 1926. Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (143)1-56
Belongs to Diodora according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008
See also Kellum 1926
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 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 subelliptica, Fissuridea nassula, Fissuridea unica
Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 779, 7794 - Lanes Ferry [Castle Hayne Limestone], which is in a Bartonian deep subtidal ramp wackestone/grainstone in the Castle Hayne Formation of North Carolina
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer-carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: North Carolina collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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