Trichotropis Broderip and Sowerby 1829 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae

Parent taxon: Capulidae according to G. Rosenberg 2005

See also Addicott 1970, Durham 1944, Hendy et al. 2008 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Capulus, Hyala, Icuncula, Lippistes, Lysinae, Neojanacus, Pileopsis, Sirius, Zelippistes, Armenostoma

Subtaxa: Trichotropis (Provanna) Trichotropis alienensis Trichotropis borealis Trichotropis squamosa Trichotropis tricarinata

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (6: British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Quebec collections), Greenland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Alaska, California, Oregon)

• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Ecuador (2), the United Kingdom (1)

• Miocene of Australia (1)

• Eocene of United States (1: Washington)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1)

• Cretaceous of Japan (1), United States (11: Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee)

Total: 31 collections including 32 occurrences

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