Superfamily Vermetoidea Rafinesque 1815 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha

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

See also Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Jeffery 2003, Ponder and Warén 1988 and Todd 2001

Sister taxa: Abyssochrysoidea, Capuloidea, Hipponicoidea, Latrogastropoda, Littorinimorpha, Littorinoidea, Lyocyclidae, Naticoidea, Rissooidea, Settsassiidae, Triphoroidea, Truncatelloidea, Weeksiidae

Subtaxa: Vermetidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Barbados (1), Bermuda (7), Brazil (2), Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut), Cape Verde (1), Cayman Islands (1), China (2), Costa Rica (4), Cuba (1), Ecuador (1), Eritrea (2), France (1), French Polynesia (4), Haiti (1), Italy (10), Jamaica (1), Japan (5), the Marshall Islands (2), Mauritius (1), Mayotte (1), Mexico (18), Morocco (6), Panama (2), Portugal (2), Saudi Arabia (4), the Seychelles (2), South Africa (3), Spain (7), United States (70: California, Florida, Hawaii, North Carolina, South Carolina), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (3: California, Florida)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (3), Belgium (1), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (7), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (17), Ecuador (2), Fiji (1), Greece (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), India (1), Indonesia (6), Italy (5), Jamaica (4), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Panama (14), South Africa (3), Spain (3), Trinidad and Tobago (7), the United Kingdom (2), United States (28: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (13)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (9)

• Miocene of Algeria (10), Argentina (2), Australia (2), Austria (9), Belgium (1), Brazil (4), Chile (4), Colombia (23), the Dominican Republic (57), Ecuador (2), Egypt (1), France (3), Germany (1), Greece (2), Grenada (4), India (2), Indonesia (12), Italy (8), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (6), Moldova (2), Morocco (2), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Palau (1), Panama (29), Poland (2), Romania (1), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), Spain (5), Trinidad and Tobago (8), United States (25: Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island), Venezuela (8)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Florida)

• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1), Mexico (1), Oman (1), United States (6: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Antarctica (5), Bulgaria (3), France (3), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (2), Romania (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (35: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (3), United States (16: Alabama, California, Maryland, Texas, Virginia)

• Cretaceous of Germany (1), Mexico (12), Poland (5), Switzerland (2), United States (2: Tennessee)

• Jurassic of Saudi Arabia (4)

• Carboniferous of Belgium (2), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 674 collections including 870 occurrences

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