Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Personidae
Alternative spelling: Persona (Distortrix)
Synonyms: Distorsio (Distortrix) Link 1807, Distorsio (Rhysema) Clench and Turner 1957, Distortrix Link 1807, Persona Montfort 1810, Rhysema Clench and Turner 1957
Parent taxon: Personidae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
See also Beu 1978, Beu 1988, Beu 2005, Beu 2010, Covacevich and Frassinetti 1986, Harris and Palmer 1947, Harzhauser 2007, Ladd 1977, Palmer 1937, Perrilliat 1992, Robba et al. 1989, Rosenberg 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001, Wilson 1993 and Woodring 1928
Sister taxa: Distorsionella, Eocymatium, Kotakaia, Personopsis
Subtaxa: Distorsio (Distorsio) Distorsio anus Distorsio biangulata Distorsio cancellina Distorsio clathrata Distorsio constricta Distorsio decipiens Distorsio decussata Distorsio jacksonensis Distorsio jenniernestae Distorsio mcgintyi Distorsio minoruohnishii Distorsio perdistorta Distorsio reticularis Distorsio ringens Distorsio simillima Distorsio smithi
Type: Murex anus
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Costa Rica (5), Fiji (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Panama (4), United States (2: Louisiana), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1)
• Pliocene of Colombia (4), Costa Rica (10), the Dominican Republic (16), Ecuador (5), Fiji (2), India (1), Jamaica (13), Mexico (6), Panama (8), the Philippines (1), Portugal (1), Spain (2), Venezuela (15)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (13), Indonesia (1)
• Miocene of Chile (7), Colombia (8), Costa Rica (2), the Dominican Republic (41), Ecuador (3), France (1), Germany (2), Grenada (3), India (3), Indonesia (1), Italy (4), Mexico (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (47), Peru (1), Turkey (1), United States (11: Florida), Venezuela (10)
• Oligocene of France (1), Myanmar (3), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), United States (10: California, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina)
• Eocene of United States (13: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
Total: 296 collections including 354 occurrences
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