Solariorbis Conrad 1865 (snail)

Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Skeneidae

Alternative spelling: Teinostoma (Solariorbis)

Parent taxon: Skeneinae according to C. L. Garvie 2013

See also Dockery 1993, Gardner 1947, Gardner 1948, Harris and Palmer 1947, Harzhauser 2002, Ladd 1966, Mandic et al. 2002, Olsson 1914, Perrilliat 1972, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Wienrich 2001

Sister taxa: Aequispirella, Brookula, Cenomanella, Cirsonella, Crossea, Delphinoidea, Dolicrossea, Eudaronia, Haplocochlias, Leucorhynchia, Lissotesta, Lissotestella, Lophocochlias, Munditiella, Notosetia, Parviturbo, Skenea, Skeneoides, Sloeudaronia, Tiburnus, Tubiola

Subtaxa: Solariorbis (Hapalorbis) Solariorbis (Systellomphalus) Solariorbis bartschi Solariorbis blakei Solariorbis boardmani Solariorbis clara Solariorbis hypolius Solariorbis infracarinatus Solariorbis lawsoni Solariorbis lipara Solariorbis mooreanus Solariorbis quadrangularis Solariorbis subangulatus

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), Panama (1), United States (7: Florida, Louisiana)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Costa Rica (1), Jamaica (4), Mexico (1), Panama (7), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (2)

• Miocene of Austria (3), Fiji (1), Germany (5), the Marshall Islands (1), Panama (21), Poland (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (8: Delaware, Florida, Maryland)

• Oligocene of Belgium (1), France (10), United States (1: Mississippi)

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (3), United States (47: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)

• Paleocene of United States (26: Alabama, Maryland, Texas)

• Cretaceous of United States (13: Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)

Total: 174 collections including 219 occurrences

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