Calliostoma Swainson 1840 (top snail)

Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Trochidae

Synonym: Venustas

Parent taxon: Calliostomatinae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010

See also Addicott 1970, Allison 1955, Beu et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2005, Durham 1944, Gardner 1947, Gardner 1948, Harzhauser and Mandic 2001, Kase 1984, MacNeil 1960, Mansfield 1925, Martin 1904, Nagao 1928, Perrilliat 1972, Perrilliat 1992, Perrilliat et al. 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Short and Potter 1987, Todd 2001, Ward and Blackwelder 1987, Weisbord 1962, Wienrich 2001, Wilson 1993 and Woodring 1957

Sister taxa: Astele, Benthastelena, Dentistyla, Fautrix, Metaconulus, Ozodochilus

Subtaxa: Calliostoma (Ampullotrochus) Calliostoma (Calliostoma) Calliostoma (Elmerlinia) Calliostoma (Eocalliostoma) Calliostoma (Eutrochus) Calliostoma (Fautor) Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) Calliostoma (Pulchrastele) Calliostoma (Salsipotens) Calliostoma (Sarmates) Calliostoma (Sinutor) Calliostoma (Tristichotrochus) Calliostoma (Ziziphinus) Calliostoma annulatum Calliostoma aphelium Calliostoma arnoldi Calliostoma attrina Calliostoma augustinensis Calliostoma bellicosum Calliostoma bellum Calliostoma blanfordi Calliostoma boscianum Calliostoma calvertanum Calliostoma canaliculatum Calliostoma carsoni Calliostoma castilla Calliostoma ceramicum Calliostoma cirrus Calliostoma coalingensis Calliostoma contextum Calliostoma conuliforme Calliostoma cragini Calliostoma decamposi Calliostoma delazinensis Calliostoma derbyi Calliostoma eboreus Calliostoma etchegoinensis Calliostoma exile Calliostoma flumenvadum Calliostoma gemmulatum Calliostoma grabaui Calliostoma grammaticum Calliostoma grantianum Calliostoma granulata Calliostoma hannibali Calliostoma humile Calliostoma irerense Calliostoma kempiana Calliostoma kerri Calliostoma lawsoni Calliostoma ligatum Calliostoma ligatus Calliostoma lignitica Calliostoma limonensis Calliostoma mea Calliostoma metrium Calliostoma mirificum Calliostoma mohtatae Calliostoma monile Calliostoma negroensis Calliostoma noduliferum Calliostoma nonurum Calliostoma parkeri Calliostoma peralveatum Calliostoma philanthropus Calliostoma pirabicum Calliostoma promense Calliostoma puelchanum Calliostoma radiatum Calliostoma reclusus Calliostoma retectum Calliostoma rhombotoide Calliostoma rhombotum Calliostoma rugabasis Calliostoma salvatoris Calliostoma sartoriusi Calliostoma singuense Calliostoma speciosa Calliostoma supragranosum Calliostoma tarltonense Calliostoma tegulum Calliostoma tricolor Calliostoma tropica Calliostoma virginicum Calliostoma wagneri Calliostoma zizyphinum

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Type: Trochus conulus

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (3), the Bahamas (3), Brazil (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), Haiti (2), India (1), Italy (2), Japan (4), Jordan (3), Kenya (1), Mexico (10), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (1), Portugal (8), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (82: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon)

• Blancan of United States (4: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), United States (6: California)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Colombia (5), Costa Rica (7), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (3), Greece (1), Haiti (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), India (1), Indonesia (5), Italy (2), Jamaica (6), Japan (1), Mexico (7), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (2), Panama (9), South Africa (2), Spain (8), Trinidad and Tobago (7), the United Kingdom (3), United States (27: California, Florida, Oregon, Virginia), Venezuela (10)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (12), Australia (1), Austria (7), Belgium (1), Brazil (8), Chile (4), Colombia (6), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (1), France (1), Germany (23), Grenada (7), India (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (2), Japan (8), Mexico (3), Moldova (2), Myanmar (2), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (5), Panama (10), Peru (2), Poland (2), Romania (2), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (14), Ukraine (1), United States (52: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1)

• Oligocene of Austria (1), Denmark (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Myanmar (3), New Zealand (2), United States (10: California, Florida, Mississippi, Washington)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Australia (2), France (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: Alabama, California, North Carolina)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), Greenland (2), Poland (2), United States (3: California, Maryland, Virginia)

• Cretaceous of Germany (2), Japan (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (2), United States (1: New Mexico), Venezuela (1)

• Jurassic of France (2), Italy (1)

• Triassic of Italy (2), Peru (3)

Total: 508 collections including 756 occurrences

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