Family Xenophoridae Troschel 1852 (carrier shell)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae

Parent taxon: Xenophoroidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017

See also Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Harris and Palmer 1947, Harzhauser 2004, Harzhauser 2007, Harzhauser and Mandic 2001, Landau and Marques da Silva 2010, Martin 1904, Ponder and Warén 1988, Squires 1984, Squires 1988, Squires and Saul 2001, Todd 2001 and Wienrich 2001

Sister taxon: Lamelliphoridae

Subtaxa: Acanthoxenophora Austrophora Endoptygma Onustus Stellaria Xenophora

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Haiti (1 collection), Italy (6), Japan (3), Morocco (1), Pakistan (1), Taiwan (1), United States (2: Florida), Vanuatu (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (3), Mexico (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (7), Ecuador (4), Fiji (1), Greece (2), India (1), Indonesia (4), Italy (5), Jamaica (3), Japan (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (2), Panama (10), Papua New Guinea (1), Spain (1), United States (3: Florida, South Carolina), Venezuela (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (6), South Africa (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Anguilla (2), Australia (3), Austria (5), Belgium (4), Brazil (3), Chile (4), Colombia (2), Denmark (2), the Dominican Republic (24), France (4), Germany (38), Greece (2), Grenada (4), Hungary (1), India (4), Indonesia (4), Italy (8), Japan (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (4), Northern Mariana Islands (3), Panama (4), Poland (1), Puerto Rico (4), Slovakia (1), Somalia (5), Sri Lanka (2), Turkey (3), United States (4: Florida)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Austria (2), Denmark (1), France (8), Germany (1), Greece (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Iran (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Somalia (5), United States (22: Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Peru (2)

• Eocene of Australia (2), Belgium (1), Egypt (2), France (6), Germany (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), Jamaica (4), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (5), Panama (2), Peru (3), Romania (4), Somalia (1), Tonga (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (65: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), Denmark (5), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), United States (10: Alabama, California, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Brazil (2), Cameroon (1), France (6), Germany (2), Mexico (9), Poland (3), United States (72: Alabama, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 513 collections including 546 occurrences

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