Exilioidea Grant, IV and Gale 1931 (true whelk)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Full reference: U. S. Grant, IV and H. R. Gale. 1931. Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History 1:1-1036

Parent taxon: Buccininae according to K. I. Schnetler and E. Palm 2008

See also Grant, IV and Gale 1931

Sister taxa: Ancistrolepidini, Angistoma, Austrobuccinum, Buccinini, Buccinulini, Colini, Coptochetus, Corneobuccinum, Eripachya, Euryochetus, Fax, Kapala, Liomesini, Plicibuccinum, Pseudofax, Pseudoliomesus, Serratifusus, Strombinophos, Volutharpa

Subtaxa: Exilioidea rectirostris

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Type: Chrysodomus rectirostris

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (14: California collections)

• Pliocene of United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Italy (2)

Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence

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