Alternative spelling: Cerithoidea
Parent taxon: Caenogastropoda according to J. B. Knight et al. 1960
See also Allison 1955, Beesley 1998, Beu et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2005, Bouchet et al. 2017, Cataldo 2017, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Harzhauser 2004, Harzhauser 2007, Jeffery 2003, Kosnik 2002, Lozouet et al. 2001, Marquet 1997, Novas et al. 2019, Ponder and Warén 1988, Rivera 1957, Saul and Squires 2003, Sohl 1960, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires 1998, Squires 1999, Squires and Saul 2001, Stilwell et al. 2004, Todd 2001, Ward 1992 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Architaenioglossa, Carinomphalus, Cassianozyga, Cataldia, Cerithimorpha, Cerithioidea, Coelodiscidae, Coelostylinidae, Cyclophoracea, Dendropupoidea, Dzikella, Epitonioidea, Idahospira, Loxotomella, Meekospiridae, Mesogastropoda, Neontaenioglossa, Neotaenioglossa, Orthonematoidea, Palaeostyloidea, Peruneloidea, Perunelomorpha, Pragoscutulidae, Prisconatica, Pseudomelanoidea, Soleniscoidea, Sorbeoconcha, Spanionematidae, Strobeidae, Trinema, Vanikoroidea, Ventrosia, Zygopleuroidea
Subtaxa: Bramertonia Melaniidae Vermicularidae
Ecology: epifaunal
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Venezuela (2 collections)
• Oligocene of Ecuador (1), Peru (2)
• Eocene of Peru (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), New Zealand (2), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 11 collections including 12 occurrences