Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1843. Descriptions of a new genus, and of twenty-nine new Miocene, and one Eocene fossil shells of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1(30-31):305-311
Parent taxon: Rapaninae according to L. W. Ward 1992
See also Martin 1904, Petuch 1992, Sepkoski 2002 and Sohl 1964
Sister taxa: Califrapana, Concholepas, Indothais, Neorapana, Rapana, Sargana, Stramonita, Thaisella, Tritonopsis
Subtaxa: Ecphora (Ecphora) Ecphora (Stenomphalus) Ecphora (Trisecphora) Ecphora gardnerae Ecphora kochi Ecphora meganae Ecphora pamlico Ecphora proquadricostata Ecphora quadricostata Ecphora tampaensis Ecphora tricostata
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (27: Florida, South Carolina, Virginia collections)
• Miocene of United States (72: Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (4: North Carolina, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of United States (14: Alabama, Delaware, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 120 collections including 129 occurrences
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