Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Alternative spelling: Actaeonidae
Parent taxon: Acteonoidea according to C. S. Cataldo 2017
See also Addicott 1970, Adegoke 1977, Allison 1955, Beesley 1998, Beu et al. 1990, Chiesa et al. 1995, Gründel and Nützel 2012, Harris and Palmer 1947, Knight et al. 1960, Ronchetti 1970, Rosenberg 2005, Sohl 1964, Spath 1947, Todd 2001, Turner 1938, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Wienrich and Janssen 2007
Sister taxa: Acteonacea, Acteonellidae, Aplustridae, Bullinidae, Cylindrobullinidae, Euactaeonina, Hydatinidae, Ringiculidae, Tubiferidae
Subtaxa: Acteocinidae Acteon Acteonellinae Acteoninae Bullina Crenilabium Cylindrobullinae Japonactaeon Lithophysema Nucleopsinae Ongleya Pirsila Pupa Rictaxis Semiactaeon Solidula Tenuiactaeon Tornatellaea Triploca Vasjugania Wangacteon
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Brazil (1), Costa Rica (1), Fiji (1), France (7), French Polynesia (1), Germany (6), Greece (1), Iceland (2), Ireland (1), Italy (2), New Zealand (1), South Africa (4), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (24: California, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Texas), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (3), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Belgium (2), Costa Rica (3), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Jamaica (4), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (5), the Philippines (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: California, Florida, Virginia), Venezuela (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (5), Australia (3), Austria (4), Belgium (3), Chile (1), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Germany (23), India (2), Indonesia (3), Italy (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (19), the Philippines (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Turkey (1), United States (28: California, Florida, Maryland)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Denmark (1), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (1), United States (30: Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of Antarctica (4), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (2), France (7), Italy (2), Japan (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands Antilles (1), New Zealand (4), Pakistan (2), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (169: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (11), Australia (3), Austria (2), Belgium (2), Denmark (7), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (4), Mexico (3), New Zealand (3), Nigeria (1), Poland (3), United States (60: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (1), Albania (1), Angola (1), Argentina (9), Australia (1), Austria (3), Bulgaria (2), Canada (2: Alberta), Chile (1), Cuba (3), Egypt (7), France (11), Germany (7), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Jamaica (31), Japan (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Madagascar (2), Mexico (8), Mozambique (1), Poland (36), Portugal (2), Puerto Rico (26), the Russian Federation (3), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (192: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Chile (1), Germany (7), Greenland (3), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 940 collections including 1277 occurrences