Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Alternative spelling: Nerinaeidae
Parent taxon: Nerineoidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017
See also Allison 1955, Ponder and Warén 1988, Ronchetti 1970, Saul and Squires 1998 and von der Osten 1957
Sister taxa: Aptyxiellidae, Auroraellidae, Bactroptyxisidae, Dalmateidae, Elatioriellidae, Elegantellidae, Fibuloptygmatidae, Fibulotyxisidae, Itieriidae, Nerinellidae, Phaneroptyxisidae, Polyptyxisidae, Ptygmatidae, Triptyxisidae, Upellidae
Subtaxa: Adiozoptyxinae Aphanoptyxis Cossmannea Diptyxis Favria Itieria Nerineinae Nerinoidinae Plesioptyxis Polyptyxis
Ecology: epifaunal
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Albania (3 collections), Algeria (5), Angola (4), Austria (3), Chile (1), China (1), Croatia (1), Egypt (14), France (11), Gabon (1), Germany (4), Greece (1), Hungary (5), Italy (8), Japan (7), Libya (3), Mexico (16), Mozambique (2), Portugal (34), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (17), the United Kingdom (2), United States (10: Arizona, California, Texas), Venezuela (4)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Romania (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Chile (7), China (1), Cuba (1), Ethiopia (11), France (7), Germany (6), India (3), Indonesia (1), Italy (5), Kenya (1), Lebanon (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (5), New Zealand (2), Poland (6), Portugal (32), Saudi Arabia (29), Slovenia (4), Somalia (9), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (6), Thailand (1), Tunisia (21), the United Kingdom (11), United States (31: California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 367 collections including 477 occurrences