Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Alternative spellings: Cymatium (Ranularia), Eutritonium (Ranularia), Tritonium (Ranularia)
Synonyms: Retusum Jousseaume 1892, Tritonocauda Dall 1904
Parent taxon: Ranellinae according to A. G. Beu 2010
See also Beu 1988, Beu 2005, Ladd 1982, Landau and Marques da Silva 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Todd 2001
Sister taxa: Ameranella, Crassicymatium, Cymatona, Fusitriton, Gutturinium, Gyrineum, Halgyrineum, Priene, Reticutriton, Septa, Turritriton
Subtaxa: Ranularia cynocephalum Ranularia dunkeri Ranularia gallinago Ranularia gutturnia Ranularia pyrum Ranularia rehderi
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Jamaica (1 collection), Vanuatu (3), Venezuela (2), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (2)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1)
• Paleocene of United States (4: Texas)
Total: 14 collections including 17 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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