Tornatellaea Conrad 1860 (snail)

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae

Parent taxon: Acteonidae according to C. S. Cataldo 2017

See also Adegoke 1977, Beu et al. 1990, Gründel and Nützel 2012, Harris and Palmer 1947, Kaim 2004, Kase 1984, Sepkoski 2002 and Sohl 1964

Sister taxa: Acteocinidae, Acteon, Acteonellinae, Acteoninae, Bullina, Crenilabium, Cylindrobullinae, Japonactaeon, Lithophysema, Nucleopsinae, Ongleya, Pirsila, Pupa, Rictaxis, Semiactaeon, Solidula, Tenuiactaeon, Triploca, Vasjugania, Wangacteon

Subtaxa: Tornatellaea (Ravniella) Tornatellaea africana Tornatellaea bella Tornatellaea cretacea Tornatellaea effingeri Tornatellaea gazdzickii Tornatellaea globulosa Tornatellaea impressa Tornatellaea impressus Tornatellaea lata Tornatellaea matura Tornatellaea neuquina Tornatellaea pinguis Tornatellaea regularis Tornatellaea rosa Tornatellaea simulata Tornatellaea vacavillensis

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Germany (1 collection), United States (3: Mississippi, North Carolina)

• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (2), Italy (2), Mexico (1), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (45: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey)

• Tertiary of United States (1: California)

• Paleocene of Argentina (11), Australia (3), Austria (1), Belgium (2), Denmark (6), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (4), Mexico (3), Nigeria (1), Poland (3), United States (58: Alabama, California, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (2), France (2), Germany (4), Poland (28), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (32: California, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of Germany (7), Greenland (3), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 244 collections including 262 occurrences

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