Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
Alternative spellings: Cerithium (Pyrazus), Potamides (Pyrazus)
Parent taxon: Batillariidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Adegoke 1977, Allison 1955, Beu et al. 1990, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Harzhauser 2004, Kase 1984, Olsson 1967, Pacaud and Harzhauser 2012, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Robba et al. 1989, Sepkoski 2002 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Batillaria, Batillariella, Granulolabium, Lampanella, Pyrazisinus, Pyrazopsis, Rhinocoryne, Velacumantus, Vicinocerithium, Zeacumanthus, Pyrazella, Terebraliopsis
Subtaxa: Cerithium (Pyrazus) arapovicense Pyrazus consobrinus Pyrazus ebeninus Pyrazus elongatum Pyrazus indicus Pyrazus nigeriensis Pyrazus octogonus Pyrazus protobeninus Pyrazus sutherlandi Pyrazus valeriae Pyrazus waitemataensis
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Florida collections)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1)
• Miocene of India (1), Pakistan (1)
• Oligocene of Greece (1)
• Eocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Bulgaria (2), Hungary (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), Pakistan (8), the United Kingdom (3)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), France (1), India (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1)
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (1), Egypt (19), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Japan (3), Mexico (6), Portugal (4), Saudi Arabia (1), USSR (1)
Total: 69 collections including 71 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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