Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Tegulidae
Alternative spelling: Tegulinae
Parent taxon: Trochoidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, DeVries 2007, Landau et al. 2016 and Squires and Saul 2005
Sister taxa: Angariidae, Araeonematidae, Areneidae, Ataphridae, Calliostomatidae, Colloniidae, Epulotrochidae, Eucochlidae, Fossarinidae, Liotiidae, Metriomphalidae, Nododelphinulidae, Phasianellidae, Sclarotrardidae, Skeneidae, Solariellidae, Strianematina, Trochidae, Turbinidae, Ueckerconulus, Velainellidae
Subtaxa: Agathistoma Cantallocostoma Intistoma Stearnsium Tegula
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (3 collections), the Bahamas (3), Brazil (6), Chile (8), Ecuador (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Mexico (26), Panama (1), Peru (3), United States (29: California, Florida), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Chile (1), United States (3: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (2), Peru (2), United States (3: California, Florida, Oregon), Venezuela (8)
• Miocene of Argentina (4), Chile (1), Japan (1), Peru (5), United States (9: California, Delaware, Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of United States (3: California)
• Eocene of United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: California)
• Jurassic of Greenland (2)
Total: 135 collections including 158 occurrences