Family Scaliolidae Jousseaume 1912 (snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Scaliolidae

Synonym: Obtortionidae Thiele 1925

Parent taxon: Cerithioidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017

See also Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Harzhauser 2002, Jeffery 2003, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Ponder and Warén 1988, Todd 2001 and Wilson 1993

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Clatrofenella Finella Sandbergeria Scaliola Scaliolidae

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), the Bahamas (1), Brazil (6), China (1), French Polynesia (1), Japan (1), Mayotte (7), Panama (1), United States (6: Florida, South Carolina), Uruguay (3)

• Pliocene of Indonesia (2), United States (4: Florida)

• Miocene of Austria (4), France (7), Germany (2), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Poland (1), United States (2: Florida)

• Oligocene of Belgium (4), France (17), Germany (1)

• Eocene of Belgium (2), France (6), Spain (1), Turkey (1)

Total: 85 collections including 102 occurrences

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