Family Viviparidae Gray 1847 (snail)

Gastropoda - Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae

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

See also Beesley 1998, Knight et al. 1960, Oostingh 1935 and Ponder and Warén 1988

Sister taxon: Pliopholygidae

Subtaxa: Bellamyinae Kosoviinae Lioplacinae Lioplacodes Paludininae Tulotomoides Viviparinae

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Ecology: epifaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Greece (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Kenya (3), Romania (1), Sudan (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (22: Florida, Michigan)

• Blancan of United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (8), Greece (1), Uganda (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene of Croatia (4), Indonesia (8), Japan (1), Malawi (1), Tanzania (3), Turkey (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1), Tanzania (1)

• Miocene of Austria (1), Germany (4), India (1), Indonesia (1), Pakistan (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Turkey (1), Uganda (1)

• Oligocene of Hungary (1), India (1), Japan (1)

• Eocene of Japan (5), the United Kingdom (46), United States (8: North Carolina, Texas, Wyoming), Vietnam (1)

• Paleocene of Canada (25: Alberta, Saskatchewan), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Utah)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Canada (1: Alberta)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (2), Canada (6: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (4), France (2), India (4), Japan (11), Mexico (3), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (1), Spain (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (6), United States (26: Arizona, Idaho, Maryland, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of China (6), France (1), Italy (1), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (6: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming), Uruguay (1)

• Triassic of Germany (1)

Total: 271 collections including 353 occurrences

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