Gastropoda - Patellogastropoda
Alternative spelling: Patellacea
Full reference: C. S. Rafinesque. 1815. Analyse de la Nature, ou Tableau de l'Univers et des Corps Organisés 1-241
Parent taxon: Patellogastropoda according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Bouchet et al. 2017, Hickman 1980 and Stilwell et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Actinoleuca, Ansates, Atalacmea, Conoidacmea, Nacelloidea, Neolepetopsoidea, Parvacmea, Patellastra, Patellida
Subtaxa: Patellidae
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (4), the Bahamas (1), Chile (1), France (1), Iceland (2), Italy (1), Kenya (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (8), Namibia (4), New Zealand (1), Pitcairn (1), Portugal (10), Saudi Arabia (4), South Africa (12), Spain (12), the United Kingdom (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Greece (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), South Africa (4), Spain (3)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (2), Greece (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Poland (1), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Oligocene of Italy (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of France (5), Romania (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (2), France (1), Greenland (3), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (2), France (1), Germany (2), Japan (3), New Zealand (4), the Russian Federation (4), Switzerland (1), United States (4: California, Delaware, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (4), Greenland (1), Italy (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tanzania (4)
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (2), Indonesia (3), Italy (6), New Zealand (3), United States (3: Alaska, California)
• Permian of Germany (1), Japan (1), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 157 collections including 247 occurrences