Gastropoda - Vanikoroidea - Vanikoridae
Alternative spelling: Vanikoroidae
Parent taxon: Vanikoroidea according to C. S. Cataldo 2017
See also Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Ponder and Warén 1988, Stilwell et al. 2004, Takano and Kano 2014 and Todd 2001
Sister taxa: Aclididae, Eulimidae, Gigantocapulidae, Haloceratidae, Hipponicacea, Omalaxidae
Subtaxa: Macromphalus Megalomphalus Radinista Vanikorinae Vanikoro Vanikoropsis
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), the Marshall Islands (1), United States (1: Hawaii)
• Pliocene of India (1), Venezuela (3)
• Miocene of Fiji (1), France (3), the Marshall Islands (2), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (2), Spain (1)
• Oligocene of Denmark (1)
• Eocene of France (8), Germany (1), Indonesia (2), the United Kingdom (2)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (10), Greenland (2)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (3), Australia (1), Canada (3: Alberta), Germany (2), Greenland (1), Israel (1), Japan (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of China (1)
Total: 67 collections including 75 occurrences