Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Parent taxon: Fasciolariidae according to M. Harzhauser et al. 2009
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Lyons and Snyder 2008, Snyder 2003 and Vermeij and Snyder 2006
Sister taxa: Barbarofusus, Calkota, Clavella, Daphnobela, Fasciolariinae, Fulgur, Fusininae, Lirosoma, Mancorus, Papillina, Rhombopsis, Tritonatractus
Subtaxa: Aptycholathyrus Benimakia Brocchitas Bullockus Crassicantharus Dennantia Dolicholatirus Exilifusus Fractolatirus Fusolatirus Hemipolygona Lamellilatirus Latirogona Latirolagena Latirus Leucozonia Lightbournus Mazzalina Neolatirus Nodopelagia Opeatostoma Peristernia Pleia Psammostoma Pseudolatirus Streptopelma Tarantinaea Taron Teralatirus
Type: Peristernia
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Bermuda (2), Cayman Islands (1), Costa Rica (1), Djibouti (1), Ecuador (1), Haiti (1), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Kenya (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (2), Mozambique (1), Panama (2), Saudi Arabia (1), the Seychelles (2), Spain (2), Sudan (1), United States (14: Florida, Hawaii), Vanuatu (4), Venezuela (2), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Guam (1), Malaysia (1)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (4), the Dominican Republic (10), Ecuador (2), Indonesia (5), Jamaica (4), Panama (2), Portugal (1), United States (13: Florida, Virginia), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (6), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Austria (3), the Dominican Republic (13), Fiji (1), France (1), Germany (16), Greece (2), Guam (1), Hungary (1), India (4), Indonesia (4), Italy (5), Japan (4), the Marshall Islands (6), Myanmar (4), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Palau (1), Panama (5), Peru (1), Poland (1), Romania (2), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Turkey (2), United States (3: Florida, South Carolina), Venezuela (5)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Haiti (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of Myanmar (2), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), United States (17: Florida, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Australia (3), Colombia (1), Egypt (1), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Japan (5), Mexico (3), New Zealand (2), Nigeria (2), Peru (1), Tonga (1), United States (152: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (54: Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (1), Germany (1), United States (11: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 472 collections including 616 occurrences