Family Triforidae Jousseaume 1884 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Triforidae

Parent taxon: Triphoroidea according to W. F. Ponder and A. Warén 1988

Sister taxa: Cerithiopsidae, Newtoniellidae, Triphoridae

Subtaxa: Cerithiella Variseila

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Australia (1 collection), Jamaica (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (4), Australia (2), France (1), Germany (20), Italy (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), Denmark (1), France (1), United States (5: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Australia (4), Belgium (1), Colombia (3), Egypt (1), France (2), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (42: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas), Venezuela (2)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)

• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (6), France (1), Greenland (2), Nigeria (1), Poland (2), United States (6: Alabama, Louisiana, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Egypt (1), Mexico (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (37: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)

Total: 167 collections including 219 occurrences

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