Gastropoda - Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Parent taxon: Crassispirinae according to A. G. Beu et al. 1990
See also Ladd 1982, Sepkoski 2002, Wienrich and Janssen 2007 and Wilson 1994
Sister taxa: Angulasina, Antiplanes, Bourguetia, Compsodrillia, Crassispira, Epidirona, Fusoidella, Glossispira, Hudlestonella, Leucosyrinx, Liocium, Lioglyphostoma, Maesiella, Malbalnella, Mesospira, Miraclathurella, Monilispira, Paosia, Pericarinata, Pilsbryspira, Pseudomelania, Ptychobela, Ramina, Tiariturris, Zonulispira, Clavatoma, Austrodrillia, Carinodrillia
Subtaxa: Inquisitor cotteri Inquisitor formidabilis Inquisitor spicata
Ecology: epifaunal
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Fiji (1 collection), Indonesia (1), Japan (3), Thailand (2), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Indonesia (4), Japan (1), the Philippines (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Germany (35), India (2), Indonesia (4), Japan (3), Myanmar (2), New Zealand (5), the Philippines (1), South Africa (1)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (2)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (2)
Total: 76 collections including 78 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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