Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata
Parent taxon: Cephalaspidea according to J. A. Todd 2001
See also Beesley 1998
Sister taxa: Acteonoida, Bulloidea, Cylichnoidea, Cylindrobulloidea, Notodiaphanidae, Philinoidea, Ringiculoidea, Runcinoidea
Subtaxa: Atydidae Bullactidae Haminoeidae Roxania Smaragdinellidae
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (6 collections), the Bahamas (1), Canada (1: Quebec), Cayman Islands (1), Djibouti (2), the Dominican Republic (1), Eritrea (1), Fiji (1), French Polynesia (1), Japan (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (16: California, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland), Vanuatu (1), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Costa Rica (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (5), United States (3: California, Florida), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Austria (3), Belgium (5), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (3), France (1), Germany (29), India (2), Indonesia (8), Italy (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (3), Panama (16), Puerto Rico (7), Slovakia (2), United States (11: Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Hungary (1), India (1), Panama (2), Peru (1), United States (6: Alaska, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), France (3), India (1), Indonesia (3), Pakistan (2), Peru (1), Tonga (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (11: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Denmark (5), Greenland (1), Poland (1), United States (21: Alabama, Louisiana, Texas)
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Texas)
Total: 224 collections including 271 occurrences