Family Nacellidae Thiele 1929 (limpet)

Gastropoda - Patellida - Nacellidae

Alternative spelling: Nacellinae

Parent taxon: Lottioidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017

See also Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Knight et al. 1960 and Lindberg and Hickman 1986

Sister taxa: Acmaeidae, Lepetidae, Lepetopsidae, Lottiidae, Neolepetopsidae, Pectinodontidae

Subtaxa: Cellana Nacella

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (12), Pakistan (1), Saudi Arabia (3), the Seychelles (1), United States (8: Hawaii)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Peru (1), South Africa (2)

• Pliocene of Chile (1), Fiji (2), Peru (2)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Chile (1), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (1), Peru (3), South Africa (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: Oregon)

• Paleocene of Argentina (4)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (5)

Total: 55 collections including 69 occurrences

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