Family Assimineidae Adams and Adams 1856 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Assimineidae

Parent taxon: Truncatelloidea according to D. A. Bullis et al. 2020

See also Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Bouchet et al. 2017, Criscione and Ponder 2013 and Ponder and Warén 1988

Sister taxa: Adeorbiidae, Amnicolidae, Anabathridae, Caecidae, Calopiidae, Clenchiellidae, Elachisinidae, Emmerciidae, Falsicingulidae, Hydrobiidae, Hydrococcidae, Iravadiidae, Pomatiopsidae, Rissoacea, Stenothyridae, Tornidae, Truncatellidae, Vitrinellidae

Subtaxa: Assiminea Assimineinae Assiminia Ekadantinae Laternoides Omphalotropidinae

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Type: Assiminea

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (1 collection), the Dominican Republic (2), Japan (1), Mauritius (1), Mexico (2), South Africa (1), United States (7: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Pliocene of Jamaica (2), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene of Israel (1), the Marshall Islands (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)

• Jurassic of China (2)

Total: 26 collections including 27 occurrences

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