Family Acteocinidae (snail)

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae

Parent taxon: Actaeonidae according to L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder 1987

See also Addicott 1970, Harris and Palmer 1947 and Sohl 1964

Sister taxa: Acteon, Acteonellinae, Acteoninae, Bullina, Crenilabium, Cylindrobullinae, Japonactaeon, Lithophysema, Nucleopsinae, Ongleya, Pirsila, Pupa, Rictaxis, Semiactaeon, Solidula, Tenuiactaeon, Tornatellaea, Triploca, Vasjugania, Wangacteon

Subtaxa: Cylindrotruncatum Goniocylichna Scobinidola Sulcularia Volvula Zikkuratia

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (3: California, Florida collections)

• Pliocene of Jamaica (1)

• Miocene of United States (19: Florida)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Maryland)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1), United States (28: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)

Total: 53 collections including 68 occurrences

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