Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Alternative spelling: Ampullospiridae
Parent taxon: Naticidae according to G. Pastorino 2005
See also Harris and Palmer 1947, Jeffery 2003, Kabat 1991, Kosnik 2002, Majima 1989, Marincovich 1977, Ponder and Warén 1988, Squires 1984 and Squires 1987
Sister taxa: Amaurellina, Amauropsella, Amauropsina, Amauropsona, Amaurospina, Austrocochlis, Banis, Chilocyclus, Cochlis, Eunatica, Euspirocrommium, Forator, Globisininae, Globulariinae, Gyrodinae, Lunatia, Magnatica, Maxwellinatica, Natica ocoyana, Naticinae, Payradeautia, Polinicinae, Sigatica, Sininae, Tanea, Taniella
Subtaxa: Amauropsis Crommium Gyrodes Lacunaria Tejonia
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Miocene of Brazil (5), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Antarctica (1)
• Oligocene of Bulgaria (5), United States (3: Georgia)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Colombia (6), France (5), Haiti (1), Japan (1), Mexico (6), Pakistan (3), Somalia (1), Spain (73), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Türkiye (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (89: Alabama, California, Florida, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (3: California)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1), Mexico (8), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (69: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, New Jersey, Texas)
• Paleogene of United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Mali (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Austria (4), Cameroon (2), Canada (4: British Columbia), Chile (1), France (3), Gabon (2), Germany (7), Greenland (2), Hungary (1), Israel (14), Japan (12), Kyrgyzstan (1), Madagascar (4), Mexico (6), Mozambique (5), Poland (4), South Africa (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (402: Alabama, Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington)
• Triassic of Hungary (4), Italy (8)
Total: 799 collections including 991 occurrences