Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Alternative spelling: Vermiculariidae
Synonyms: Pseudomesaliidae Mahmoud 1955, Pseudomesaliinae Mahmoud 1955
Parent taxon: Turritellidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017
See also Allmon 1996, Bouchet et al. 2005, Dockery 1993, Landau and Marques da Silva 2010, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Ponder and Warén 1988 and Sohl 1964
Sister taxa: Actaeonema, Caucasella, Colpospirella, Cristispira, Eligmostoma, Haustator, Incatella, Kapalmerella, Mariacolpus, Nairiella, Omalaxinae, Orectospirinae, Palmerella, Pareorinae, Protominae, Springvaleia, Torcula, Torquesiella, Trobus, Turriola, Turritellinae, Turritellopsinae, Turritellopsis
Subtaxa: Laxispira Pseudomesalia Vermicularia
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (2 collections), Bermuda (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), Fiji (1), Japan (1), United States (28: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), the Dominican Republic (10), Ecuador (1), Jamaica (3), Mexico (3), Panama (2), Trinidad and Tobago (5), United States (9: California, Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (3)
• Miocene of Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (25), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (2), the Marshall Islands (3), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Trinidad and Tobago (3), United States (1: California)
• Oligocene of the Marshall Islands (1)
• Eocene of France (5), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), Spain (7), the United Kingdom (1)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (6), Germany (1), Poland (4), the United Kingdom (3), United States (106: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (1), India (1)
• Triassic of China (2), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Peru (2)
Total: 265 collections including 285 occurrences