Family Siphonariidae Gray 1840 (pulmonate)

Gastropoda - Basommatophora - Siphonariidae

Synonyms: Anisomyonidae Kanie 1975, Liriolidae Golikov and Kussakin 1978, Siphonacmeidae Starobogatov 1976

Parent taxon: Siphonarioidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005

See also Gordillo 1991, Jeffery 2003, Kaim 2004, Sohl 1964 and Todd 2001

Sister taxon: Acroreiidae

Subtaxa: Anisomyon Siphonacmea Siphonaria Williamia

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Argentina (3), Australia (2), Bermuda (6), Cuba (1), Ecuador (1), Italy (1), Mozambique (1), Namibia (2), New Zealand (1), South Africa (3), Spain (1), United States (10: California), Uruguay (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)

• Pliocene of Jamaica (1), South Africa (1), United States (1: California), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene of France (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), South Africa (1)

• Oligocene of France (1)

• Eocene of United States (1: Washington)

• Paleocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Poland (1)

• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta, British Columbia), India (1), Japan (2), New Zealand (14), Poland (1), United States (52: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 122 collections including 131 occurrences

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