Family Pseudomelatomidae McLearn 1971 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pseudomelatomidae

Alternative spelling: Pseudomelatominae

Synonyms: Zonulispiridae McLean 1971, Zonulispirinae McLean 1971

Parent taxon: Conoidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005

See also Abbott 1974, Bouchet et al. 2011, Ponder and Warén 1988 and Wilson 1994

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Boreocomitas Buridrillia Comitas Rhodopetoma

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Indonesia (1 collection), United States (3: California), Vanuatu (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Costa Rica (4), Ecuador (5), Fiji (1), Italy (12), United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Fiji (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (2), New Zealand (10), Panama (1), United States (4: Oregon)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Oregon)

• Eocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (5: Oregon)

• Paleocene of Japan (1)

Total: 64 collections including 74 occurrences

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