Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Synonym: Auricula Lamarck 1799 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Ringiculidae according to J. Gründel and A. Nützel 2012
See also DuBar 1958, Durham 1944, Harzhauser and Mandic 2001, MacNeil 1960, Mansfield 1925, Olsson and Harbison 1953, Sepkoski 2002, Sohl 1964, Squires 1999, Squires and Saul 2001, Todd 2001, Ward and Blackwelder 1987, Wienrich and Janssen 2007 and Wood 1848
Sister taxa: Avellana, Biplica, Cinulia, Eriptycha, Gilbertina, Microglyphis, Oligoptycha, Ringinella
Subtaxa: Auricula acicula Auricula bimarginata Auricula conovuliformis Auricula cytharella Auricula hordeola Auricula miliaris Auricula miliola Auricula ovata Auricula ringens Auricula sulcata Auricula terebellata Ringicula (Ringicula) Ringicula (Ringiculella) Ringicula (Ringiculina) Ringicula (Ringiculina) clarki Ringicula (Ringiculocosta) Ringicula (Ringiculopsis) Ringicula acuta Ringicula arctatoides Ringicula blaszyki Ringicula buccinea Ringicula castigata Ringicula celata Ringicula clarki Ringicula culbertsoni Ringicula dalli Ringicula discrepans Ringicula dominicana Ringicula minor Ringicula mississippiensis Ringicula nuda Ringicula punjabensis Ringicula semperi Ringicula striata Ringicula trapaquara Ringicula trapequara Ringicula turgida Ringicula varia Ringicula ventricosa
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (1), Italy (3), Japan (3), Mayotte (3), Panama (1), the Philippines (1), South Africa (2), Thailand (2), United States (4: Florida, North Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (6)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (10), Ecuador (3), Greece (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (4), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (14), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: Florida), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (4)
• Miocene of Austria (4), Belgium (9), Denmark (2), the Dominican Republic (1), France (2), Germany (56), Greece (2), Indonesia (11), Italy (9), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (4), Panama (22), Poland (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (17: Florida)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Germany (1), Panama (1), United States (41: Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene of Angola (1), Antarctica (1), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (3), France (19), Hungary (1), Indonesia (2), Pakistan (6), the United Kingdom (16), United States (70: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (1), Colombia (2), Denmark (4), Egypt (1), France (1), Greenland (1), Poland (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (32: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Texas)
• Tertiary of United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (2), Germany (1), Mexico (3), Poland (1), South Africa (1), United States (107: Alabama, Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of Germany (1)
Total: 560 collections including 622 occurrences
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