Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Parent taxon: Vermetidae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
Sister taxa: Burtinella, Dendropoma, Dendropomatinae, Elliptovermetus, Lementina, Lemintina, Macrophragma, Serpulorbis, Vermetus
Subtaxa: Petaloconchus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut collections), Costa Rica (3), Italy (8), Jamaica (1), Mexico (5), Panama (1), Spain (2), United States (32: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (2: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (3), Belgium (1), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (3), the Dominican Republic (12), Greece (2), Italy (4), Jamaica (2), Mexico (1), Panama (7), Trinidad and Tobago (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (11: Florida, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (8)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Austria (8), Brazil (3), Colombia (22), the Dominican Republic (48), Ecuador (2), France (1), Germany (1), Greece (1), Grenada (1), Panama (23), Poland (2), Slovakia (2), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (11: Florida), Venezuela (8)
• Eocene of France (1), United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 264 collections including 299 occurrences