†family Ataphridae Cossmann 1915 (snail)

Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Ataphridae

Parent taxon: Trochoidea according to S. M. Ferrari 2014

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, GrĂ¼ndel and Kaim 2006, GrĂ¼ndel et al. 2011 and Kaim 2004

Sister taxa: Angariidae, Araeonematidae, Areneidae, Calliostomatidae, Colloniidae, Epulotrochidae, Eucochlidae, Fossarinidae, Liotiidae, Metriomphalidae, Nododelphinulidae, Phasianellidae, Sclarotrardidae, Skeneidae, Solariellidae, Strianematina, Tegulidae, Trochidae, Turbinidae, Ueckerconulus, Velainellidae

Subtaxa: Ataphrinae Ataphrus Coronopsis Endianaulax Falsataphrus Lewisiellinae Teinostomopsis Trochopsidea Zircia

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Belgium (1 collection), Denmark (1), France (1), Greenland (2), Poland (3), United States (1: Maryland)

• Cretaceous of Austria (1), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (13), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (47: Alabama, California, Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Jurassic of Argentina (1), China (2), Egypt (1), France (5), Germany (5), Greenland (2), Hungary (12), India (26), Italy (5), Kenya (1), Poland (6), Portugal (3), Spain (4), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (7), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (3: Idaho, Utah)

• Triassic of Peru (5), United States (1: Utah)

• Permian of Italy (4)

Total: 176 collections including 197 occurrences

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