Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Alternative combination: Cassidea sulcifera
Belongs to Cassis according to A. G. Beu 2010
See also Cooke 1919, Maury 1917 and Olsson 1922
Sister taxa: Cassis (Cassis), Cassis (Hypocassis), Cassis (Morionella), Cassis (Sassia), Cassis altispira, Cassis avellana, Cassis birmanica, Cassis brevicostatus, Cassis carinata, Cassis cornuta, Cassis costulifera, Cassis delta, Cassis depressior, Cassis fimbriata, Cassis flammea, Cassis flintensis, Cassis floridensis, Cassis glaucoides, Cassis herklotsi, Cassis ketteri, Cassis maccormacki, Cassis madagascariensis, Cassis mamillaris, Cassis mammillaris, Cassis norai, Cassis nummulitiphila, Cassis retusa, Cassis subtuberosa, Cassis togata, Cassis tuberosa, Cassis vialensis, Cassidea birmanica
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1 collection), the Dominican Republic (18)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (12)
• Miocene of Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (44), Venezuela (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Haiti (1)
• Oligocene of Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (3: Georgia)
Total: 85 collections including 86 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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