Family Bithyniidae Gray 1857 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Bithyniidae

Parent taxon: Rissooidea according to R. B. Salvador and M. W. Rasser 2016

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

Sister taxa: Adeorbidae, Barleeiidae, Cochliopidae, Cyclotropis, Emblandidae, Epigridae, Greveniella, Helicostoidae, Lithoglyphidae, Mesocochliopidae, Moitessieriidae, Palaeorissoinidae, Rissoidae, Torniidae

Subtaxa: Bithynia Bulimidae Gabbiella Lufengospira

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (2 collections), France (1), Poland (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Sudan (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (2)

• Pliocene of Croatia (2), Spain (3), Tanzania (2), Turkey (1)

• Miocene of Austria (5), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Germany (27), Greece (2), Israel (1), Kenya (1), Portugal (2), Spain (1), Switzerland (3), Turkey (2)

• Oligocene of Kazakhstan (1)

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (2)

• Paleocene of China (2)

• Cretaceous of Mongolia (1), Spain (2)

• Jurassic of China (6)

Total: 79 collections including 84 occurrences

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