Tylostoma Sharpe 1849

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae

Alternative spelling: Thylostoma

Synonyms: Varicigera Douvillé 1916, Varigera d'Orbigny 1850

Parent taxon: Tylostomatidae according to H. A. Kollmann 2009

See also Allison 1955, Global Biodiversity Information Facility 2015, Kase 1984, Sepkoski 2002 and Squires and Saul 2004

Sister taxon: Pterodonta

Subtaxa: Tylostoma (Tylostoma) Tylostoma aequatoriale Tylostoma allisoni Tylostoma cossoni Tylostoma garzana Tylostoma globosum Tylostoma laharpi Tylostoma materinum Tylostoma minimum Tylostoma ovatum Tylostoma pallaryi Tylostoma pechueli Tylostoma sergipensis Tylostoma torrubiae Tylostoma whitei Varicigera choffati

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Type: Tylostoma torrubiae

Distribution:

• Paleocene of France (1 collection), Greenland (2)

• Cretaceous of Angola (3), Argentina (1), Brazil (8), Chile (2), China (1), Egypt (49), Ethiopia (1), France (4), Gabon (8), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Iran (3), Italy (1), Japan (13), Libya (1), Mexico (9), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (6), Switzerland (14), Tunisia (4), USSR (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (6: California, New Mexico), Venezuela (1)

• Jurassic of France (1), Morocco (1), Romania (1), United States (11: Utah), Yemen (1)

Total: 161 collections including 190 occurrences

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