†family Procerithiidae Cossmann 1905 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Procerithiidae

Parent taxon: Cerithiimorpha according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017

See also Allison 1955, Batten 1985, Bouchet et al. 2005, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Knight et al. 1960, Ponder and Warén 1988, Squires and Saul 2001 and Stilwell 1998

Sister taxa: Canterburyellidae, Cassiopidae, Eustomatidae, Juramelanatriidae, Ladinulidae, Lucmeriidae, Maoraxidae, Popenellidae, Probittiidae, Propupaspiridae, Zardinellopsidae

Subtaxa: Bonarelliella Cryptoptyxis Kittlistylus Metacerithiinae Nudivagus Paracerithiinae Procerithiinae Procerithium Rhabdocolpus Rhynchocerithium Sinuozyga

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Mexico (4 collections), United States (89: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (19: California)

• Pliocene of United States (15: California)

• Miocene of United States (9: California)

• Paleocene of Poland (1), United States (15: Alabama, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Cameroon (1), Egypt (11), France (9), Germany (3), Indian Ocean (1), Japan (6), Libya (1), Mexico (4), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (8: California, Delaware, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas), Yemen (1)

• Jurassic of Argentina (6), Egypt (2), France (14), Germany (35), Hungary (4), India (11), Israel (4), Italy (1), Kenya (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), North Atlantic (1), Poland (7), Portugal (32), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (3), Spain (1), Tanzania (4), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (43), United States (20: Montana, Utah, Wyoming)

• Triassic of Iran (2), Italy (1), Peru (13)

• Permian of Malaysia (1), Thailand (1)

Total: 421 collections including 553 occurrences

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