Cominella Gray 1850 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cominellidae

Parent taxon: Cominellidae according to Y. I. Kantor et al. 2022

See also Beu et al. 1990, MacNeil 1960, Sepkoski 2002, White 1889 and Wilson 1994

Sister taxa: Falsistromina, Lusitromina, Pareuthria, Parficulina

Subtaxa: Cominella (Cominella) Cominella (Cominula) Cominella (Eucominia) Cominella (Josepha) Cominella (Procominula) Cominella annae Cominella annandalei Cominella bonnecarreri Cominella clelandi Cominella colemani Cominella crassina Cominella crozieri Cominella douvillei Cominella eocenica Cominella lecontei Cominella maculosa Cominella pertusa Cominella praecursor Cominella pumila Cominella retifera Cominella staufti Cominella subfilicea Cominella supracostata

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), Japan (2), New Zealand (1)

• Pliocene of Indonesia (1), New Zealand (6)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (2)

• Miocene of Argentina (2), New Zealand (8), Pakistan (1)

• Oligocene of New Zealand (3), Pakistan (1), United States (2: Washington)

• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Egypt (1), France (1), Nigeria (6), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (13: California, Oregon, Washington)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Greenland (3), Poland (3), Togo (1), United States (2: Louisiana, Texas)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (5), United States (1: California)

Total: 79 collections including 85 occurrences

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