Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Synonyms: Turriculidae Blainville 1824, Turriculinae Blainville 1824, Vexillidae Thiele 1929, Vexillinae Thiele 1929
Parent taxon: Turbinelloidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017
See also Addicott 1970, Adegoke 1977, Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2011, Bouchet et al. 2005, Davoli 2000, Harzhauser and Mandic 2001, Hickman 1976, Hickman 1980, Landau and Marques da Silva 2010, MacNeil 1960, Moore 1976, Olsson 1964, Petuch 1997, Ponder and Warén 1988, Sohl 1964, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Todd 2001, Wienrich and Janssen 2007, Wilson 1994, Woodring 1964 and Woodring 1970
Sister taxa: Columbariidae, Ptychatractidae, Turbinellidae, Volutomitridae
Subtaxa: Austrocarina Austromitra Austrosullivania Bellardithala Clivuloturris Cocklespira Conomitra Fusisyrinx Fusiturricula Knefastia Makiyamaia Mariaturricula Marshallena Microsurcula Mitridomus Nodisurculina Orthosurcula Paracomitas Paradrillia Pseudocochlespira Pyramimitra Thala Uromitra Vexillum Vexitomina
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (3 collections), Costa Rica (1), Djibouti (2), Fiji (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (5), the Marshall Islands (1), Mayotte (1), Mexico (2), Mozambique (1), Panama (1), the Philippines (1), South Africa (1), Taiwan (3), United States (11: Florida, Hawaii, North Carolina, South Carolina), Vanuatu (3), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Guam (1), Malaysia (5), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (6), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (5), Fiji (5), Greece (2), India (1), Indonesia (10), Jamaica (4), Japan (6), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (1), Panama (7), the Philippines (4), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina), Vanuatu (2), Venezuela (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (6), Japan (3)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (3), Austria (5), Belgium (2), Brazil (1), Colombia (21), Denmark (2), the Dominican Republic (7), Ecuador (1), Fiji (2), France (2), Germany (26), Greece (2), Grenada (2), India (2), Indonesia (14), Italy (4), Japan (7), the Marshall Islands (8), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (5), Palau (1), Panama (17), the Philippines (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (3), Turkey (1), United States (26: Florida, Maryland), Venezuela (9)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), United States (5: Florida)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Denmark (6), France (19), Germany (1), Hungary (3), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (47: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington), Venezuela (2)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Eocene of Antarctica (6), Australia (1), Bulgaria (1), France (5), Indonesia (4), Italy (1), Namibia (1), New Zealand (5), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (13), United States (129: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (1), Colombia (2), Denmark (6), France (1), Greenland (2), Mexico (3), Nigeria (1), Poland (1), United States (55: Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Germany (2), United States (3: Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 643 collections including 1011 occurrences