Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Alternative combination: Fissuridea subelliptica
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(14):199-214
Belongs to Diodora according to U. S. Grant, IV and H. R. Gale 1931
See also Nomland 1916
Sister taxa: Diodora (Diodora), Diodora arnoldi, Diodora aspera, Diodora auroraensis, Diodora cayenensis, Diodora chipolana, Diodora corbicula, Diodora densiclathrata, 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 murina, 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 stillwaterensis, Diodora subcostaria, Diodora tenebrosa, Diodora ticaonica, Diodora unica, Diodora viridula, Diodora vredenburgi, Fissuridea nassula, Fissuridea marylandica, Fissuridea alticosta, Elegidion audax, Diodora (Elegidion) marshallensis
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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