†Metacerithium Cossmann 1906 (snail)
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Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Metacerithiidae
Parent taxon: Metacerithiidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Allison 1955 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Metacerithium epicretaceum Metacerithium packardi Metacerithium paleocaenicum
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Austria (1 collection), Denmark (6), Egypt (2), Greenland (1), Poland (3), United States (4: California)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (1), France (5), Germany (7), Hungary (1), Madagascar (3), Mexico (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 38 collections including 45 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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