Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Alternative spelling: Clavatulinae
Parent taxon: Conoidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also MacNeil 1960, Ponder and Warén 1988 and Woodring 1928
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Clavatula Clionella Glibertturricula Pusionella Turricula
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (2 collections), Costa Rica (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (3), South Africa (3), Spain (1), Taiwan (12), Thailand (1), United States (2: North Carolina), Vanuatu (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (4), South Africa (1), Taiwan (1)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (2), the Dominican Republic (3), Fiji (1), Greece (2), India (1), Indonesia (4), Iran (1), Italy (21), Japan (1), Papua New Guinea (1), the Philippines (1), Portugal (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Austria (5), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Ecuador (4), France (2), Germany (17), Greece (2), India (10), Indonesia (15), Italy (11), Japan (3), Myanmar (5), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (2), Papua New Guinea (1), Romania (3), Slovakia (3), South Africa (2), Turkey (5), United States (21: California, Florida, Maryland)
• Oligocene of Denmark (3), Hungary (1), Myanmar (3), Peru (1), United States (28: Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Eocene of Angola (1), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (3), Colombia (3), Egypt (1), France (5), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Mexico (2), Namibia (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (11), Pakistan (3), Peru (5), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (17), United States (129: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (1), Denmark (7), Egypt (1), France (1), Greenland (4), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (3), United States (51: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Poland (3), United States (3: California, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 496 collections including 793 occurrences