Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Alternative spellings: Columbella (Mitrella), Mitrela, Pyrene (Mitrella)
Parent taxon: Columbellidae according to R. Duerr 2008
See also Addicott 1970, Darragh 2017, Gardner 1948, Harzhauser 2002, Harzhauser and Kowalke 2002, Ladd 1977, MacNeil 1960, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001, Ward and Blackwelder 1987, Wenz 1938, Wienrich 2001, Wilson 1994 and Woodring 1964
Sister taxa: Aesopus, Amphissa, Astyris, Atiliinae, Bifurcium, Clavistrombina, Columbella, Columbellinae, Columbellopsis, Conella, Cosmioconcha, Decipifus, Euplica, Eurypyrene, Glyptanachis, Graphicomassa, Indomitrella, Lavesopus, Mazatlania, Metulella, Microcithara, Nassarina, Nitidella, Parametaria, Parvanachis, Pyrene, Pyrenidae, Pyreninae, Retizafra, Rhombinella, Ruthia, Seminella, Sincola, Strombinella, Zafrona, Zemitrella
Subtaxa: Columbella (Mitrella) tenuilineata Mitrela agenta Mitrella (Atilia) Mitrella (Mitrella) Mitrella (Mitrella) Mitrella anchuela Mitrella broderipi Mitrella cantaurana Mitrella debooyi Mitrella edensis Mitrella epacta Mitrella gardnerae Mitrella gausapata Mitrella guttata Mitrella hayesorum Mitrella hilberi Mitrella limonensis Mitrella mikra Mitrella nanna Mitrella oryzoides Mitrella parva Mitrella pedana Mitrella phyllisae Mitrella sima Mitrella tuberosa
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (1), Costa Rica (1), Djibouti (1), Ecuador (1), Fiji (1), Italy (1), Japan (5), Mexico (7), Morocco (5), Panama (2), Peru (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1), United States (84: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (11: California)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Costa Rica (4), Fiji (2), Greece (2), Haiti (1), India (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (2), Mexico (3), Panama (6), Peru (1), United States (22: California, Florida, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Australia (2), Austria (4), Belgium (4), the Dominican Republic (1), France (2), Germany (29), Greece (2), Indonesia (3), Italy (5), Japan (2), the Marshall Islands (1), the Netherlands (1), Palau (1), Panama (13), Poland (1), Romania (2), Slovakia (2), Spain (1), Turkey (2), United States (35: California, Florida, New Jersey), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Panama (1), United States (8: California, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Panama (2), United States (46: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene of Mexico (1), United States (4: Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas)
Total: 356 collections including 453 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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