Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Alternative spelling: Murex (Poirieria)
Parent taxon: Muricinae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
See also Merle and Pacaud 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Vokes 1970
Sister taxa: Bolinus, Caelobassus, Chicomurex, Chicoreus, Haustellum, Homolocantha, Maxwellia, Murex, Pazinotus, Phyllonotus, Pseudoperissolax, Vokesimurex
Subtaxa: Poirieria (Flexopteron) Poirieria (Panamurex) Poirieria (Paziella) Poirieria (Poirieria) Poirieria albionis Poirieria calcitrapa Poirieria levis Poirieria subcristata Poirieria zelandicus
Type: Murex zelandicus
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of New Zealand (2 collections)
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (3), Jamaica (3), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), United States (4: Florida), Venezuela (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of Australia (2), the Dominican Republic (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (16), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (37: Florida), Venezuela (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), United States (2: Florida, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Austria (1), France (4), Italy (1), New Zealand (2), Nigeria (6), the United Kingdom (8), United States (1: Alabama)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (1), France (1), Nigeria (1), United States (6: Alabama, Texas)
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Texas)
Total: 129 collections including 180 occurrences
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