Family Elachisinidae Ponder 1985 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Elachisinidae

Parent taxon: Truncatelloidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017

See also Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Ponder and Warén 1988 and Todd 2001

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

Subtaxa: Boetica Cirsope Dumasella Elachisina Entomope Lacunella Laeviphitus Pseudocirsope

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Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (1: California collection)

• Pliocene of United States (2: California)

• Miocene of France (1), Germany (1), Italy (1)

• Oligocene of Belgium (2), Denmark (1), France (9), Germany (1)

• Eocene of France (3), the United Kingdom (3)

• Paleocene of Denmark (2), Greenland (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Cretaceous of Madagascar (1), United States (2: Mississippi)

Total: 32 collections including 34 occurrences

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