Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Modulidae
Parent taxon: Modulidae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Gardner 1947, Ladd 1972, Lozouet et al. 2001, Petuch 1988, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Aplodon, Psammodulus
Subtaxa: Modulus basileus Modulus basteroti Modulus calusa Modulus carchedonius Modulus modulus Modulus tamanensis Modulus tectum Modulus vermeiji Modulus willcoxi
Type: Trochus modulus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Cayman Islands (3 collections), Cuba (2), Djibouti (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (1), French Polynesia (1), Guam (1), Haiti (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Panama (1), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (21: Florida, Hawaii)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (1), Jamaica (5), Panama (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (5: California, Florida), Venezuela (5)
• Miocene of Colombia (8), France (1), Indonesia (3), Italy (1), Palau (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (6: Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Florida)
Total: 89 collections including 99 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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