Family Coralliophilidae Chenu 1859 (murex snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Synonyms: Magilidae Thiele 1925, Rapidae Kuroda 1941

Parent taxon: Coralliophilinae according to W. F. Ponder and A. Warén 1988

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Ladd 1982, Landau and Marques da Silva 2010, Martin 1904, Oliverio 2009, Sohl 1964, Todd 2001, Wienrich 2001 and Wilson 1994

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Latiaxis

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), Vanuatu (1)

• Pliocene of Fiji (1), Italy (1)

• Miocene of Australia (1), the Marshall Islands (2)

• Cretaceous of United States (8: Maryland, Tennessee, Texas)

Total: 15 collections including 19 occurrences

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