Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
Synonym: Echinellopsis Rovereto 1899
Parent taxon: Littorinidae according to M. Harzhauser 2007
See also Abbass 1967, Ladd 1966, Sepkoski 2002, Vaught et al. 1989 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Cenchritis, Dissochilus, Echinininae, Echinolittorina, Eulimene, Gouetina, Lacuninae, Laevilitorina, Laevilitorininae, Littoraria, Littorina, Littorininae, Melarhaphe, Mirolacuna, Neritrema, Nodilittorina, Peasiella, Praelittorina, Procancellaria, Risella, Risellopsis, Rissellinae, Tectariinae, Heterospira, Hallstadtia
Subtaxa: Tectarius (Subditotectarius) Tectarius (Tectarius) Tectarius coronatus Tectarius elegans Tectarius ligniticus
Type: Tectarius coronatus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Ecuador (1), Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Jamaica (1)
• Miocene of the Marshall Islands (2), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of Oman (1)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (1)
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (1)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
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