Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Hipponicidae
Alternative spelling: Hipponyx
Parent taxon: Hipponicidae according to J. A. Todd 2001
See also Abbass 1967, Adegoke 1977, Dockery 1977, Durham 1944, Erdmann and Morra 1985, Harris and Palmer 1947, Harzhauser 2004, Ladd 1972, MacNeil 1960, Sepkoski 2002, Wilson 1993, Woodring 1928, Woodring 1957 and Zinsmeister 1983
Sister taxa: Cheilea, Eoatlanta, Gnaszynium, Krebsia, Rothpletzia, Sabia
Subtaxa: Hipponix (Antisabia) Hipponix (Malluvium) Hipponix (Pilosabia) Hipponix antiquatus Hipponix conicus Hipponix demissus Hipponix dichotomus Hipponix interruptus Hipponix pristinus Hipponix tumens Hipponyx ainamurensis Hipponyx arnoldi Hipponyx carpenteri Hipponyx ceras Hipponyx conoides Hipponyx cornucopae Hipponyx costata Hipponyx gomai Hipponyx ovalis Hipponyx pygmaea Hipponyx woodi
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (5 collections), the Bahamas (3), Bermuda (3), Cayman Islands (3), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Ecuador (4), Jamaica (1), Japan (4), Mexico (34), New Zealand (2), Peru (1), Spain (1), United States (64: California, Florida, Hawaii)
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (2), Fiji (3), Indonesia (2), Jamaica (4), Japan (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (3: California, Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), the Dominican Republic (6), Fiji (1), France (3), Grenada (2), India (2), Italy (6), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (9), Panama (2), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (1: California), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of Argentina (3), Germany (1), Iran (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (1), Egypt (2), France (9), Germany (1), Italy (1), Panama (1), United States (93: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia, Washington)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Greenland (3), Nigeria (1), Poland (2), Puerto Rico (1), United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: California)
Total: 321 collections including 370 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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