Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Alternative spellings: Nerina, Nerinaea, Ptygmatis (Nerinea)
Parent taxon: Nerineinae according to T. Kase 1984
See also Albrecht 1924, Allison 1955, Raisossadat and Noori 2016, Sepkoski 2002 and von der Osten 1957
Sister taxa: Archimedea, Turbinea
Subtaxa: Nerinea (Plesioptygmatis) Nerinea capelloi Nerinea desvoidyi Nerinea gachupinae Nerinea somaliensis Nerinea stewarti Nerinea thompsonensis Nerinea timorensis Ptygmatis (Nerinea) requienianae
Ecology: epifaunal
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Albania (2 collections), Algeria (5), Angola (4), Chile (1), Croatia (1), Egypt (14), France (9), Gabon (1), Germany (4), Greece (1), Hungary (3), Italy (6), Japan (2), Libya (3), Mexico (11), Mozambique (2), Portugal (7), Serbia (2), Spain (1), Switzerland (17), the United Kingdom (2), United States (5: Arizona, California, Texas), Venezuela (4)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Romania (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (2), China (1), Cuba (1), Ethiopia (11), France (7), Germany (5), Indonesia (1), Italy (3), Lebanon (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (5), Portugal (14), Saudi Arabia (22), Slovenia (2), Somalia (8), Tanzania (2), Tunisia (21), the United Kingdom (5), United States (8: California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 231 collections including 303 occurrences
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