†family Pediculariidae Adams and Adams 1854 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Pediculariidae

Alternative spelling: Pediculariinae

Parent taxon: Cypraeoidea according to L. T. Groves and R. L. Squires 2023

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Bouchet et al. 2017, Dolin and Aguerre 2018, Dolin and Lozouet 2004, Dolin and Pacaud 2009, Fehse 2013, Harzhauser 2007 and Landau and Marques da Silva 2010

Sister taxa: Cypraea bayerquei, Cypraea fresnoensis, Cypraea oakvillensis, Cypraeidae, Eocypraeidae, Eratoidae, Ovula martini, Ovulidae, Triviidae, Velutinidae

Subtaxa: Cypraediinae Cypraediini Cypraeogemmula Eovolva Jenneriinae Lozouetina Olianatrivia

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Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Mexico (1 collection), Panama (1), United States (2: Florida)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (2: Florida)

• Pliocene of Costa Rica (2), the Dominican Republic (2), United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (3)

• Miocene of Austria (2), Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (2), India (1), Italy (5), the Marshall Islands (1), Oman (1), Poland (1), Romania (2)

• Oligocene of France (1), Italy (2), Myanmar (2), Peru (1)

• Eocene of Bulgaria (3), Colombia (2), Croatia (2), Egypt (2), France (12), Germany (2), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (5), Mexico (2), Nigeria (10), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Peru (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (24: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Egypt (1), Nigeria (1), Sweden (1)

• Cretaceous of France (1)

Total: 116 collections including 128 occurrences

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