Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Areneidae
Parent taxon: Trochoidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017
See also Aktipis and Giribet 2012 and Landau et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Angariidae, Araeonematidae, Ataphridae, Calliostomatidae, Colloniidae, Epulotrochidae, Eucochlidae, Fossarinidae, Liotiidae, Metriomphalidae, Nododelphinulidae, Phasianellidae, Sclarotrardidae, Skeneidae, Solariellidae, Strianematina, Tegulidae, Trochidae, Turbinidae, Ueckerconulus, Velainellidae
Subtaxa: Arene Marevalvata
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (3 collections), Costa Rica (3), Cuba (1), Panama (1), United States (8: California, Florida, North Carolina), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of Jamaica (2), United States (4: North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (5)
• Miocene of the Marshall Islands (1)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Mexico (1), United States (4: California, Washington)
Total: 36 collections including 39 occurrences