Family Atlantidae Wiegmann and Ruthe 1832 (snail)
Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Atlantidae
Parent taxon: Carinarioidea according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008
See also Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Ponder and Warén 1988 and Zorn 1997
Sister taxa: Bellerophinidae, Carinariidae, Pterotracheidae, Atlantacea
Subtaxa: Atlanta Oxygyrus Protatlanta
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Marshall Islands (1 collection), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (2), Fiji (1), Jamaica (2), Panama (6), Portugal (1), Spain (2)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2), France (2), Greece (1), Grenada (4), Panama (2)
• Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Eocene of United States (2: Texas)
Total: 30 collections including 39 occurrences