Oniscidia Mörch 1852 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Harpidae

Alternative spelling: Morum (Oniscidia)

Synonyms: Cancellomorum Emerson and Old 1963, Morum (Cancellomorum) Emerson and Old 1963, Onimusiro Kira 1971, Pulchroniscia Garrard 1961

Parent taxon: Moruminae according to R. L. Squires 2018

See also Adegoke 1977, Gardner 1947, Ladd 1982, MacNeil 1960, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Vokes 1998

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Morum (Cancellomorum) coxi Morum (Oniscidia) chipolanum Morum (Oniscidia) domingense Oniscidia chavani Oniscidia jungi Oniscidia plectata

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (2: Florida collections), Vanuatu (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (7), Fiji (1), Japan (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (8)

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (7), France (1), Germany (1), Grenada (3), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), Poland (1), United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (3: Florida)

• Oligocene of Peru (1), United States (2: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Panama (2), Venezuela (1)

• Paleocene of Mexico (1), Nigeria (1), United States (2: California)

Total: 51 collections including 54 occurrences

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