Gastropoda - Patellida - Acmaeidae
Alternative spelling: Patella (Acmaea)
Parent taxon: Acmaeinae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Clark and Arnold 1923, Durham 1944, Hendy et al. 2008, Hickman 1980, Kase 1984, Knight et al. 1960, Kurihara and Kase 2008, Nagao 1928, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Sepkoski 2002, Sohl 1964, Stewart 1927, Stilwell et al. 2004, Todd 2001 and Weisbord 1962
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acmaea (Acmaea) Acmaea campanaeformis Acmaea cassis Acmaea dickersoni Acmaea funiculata Acmaea galea Acmaea geometrica Acmaea hannibali Acmaea lineata Acmaea martinezensis Acmaea mitra Acmaea oakvillensis Acmaea ocitatia Acmaea poulseni Acmaea ruckmani Acmaea rudis Acmaea simplex Acmaea soceni Acmaea subangulata Acmaea submesidia Acmaea victoriana
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), the Bahamas (1), Bermuda (1), Ecuador (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Mexico (14), the Seychelles (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (43: Alaska, California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Jamaica (4), Japan (2), Panama (1), Spain (6), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (4: California, Virginia)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Greenland (1), Japan (2), Poland (1), United States (3: California), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Canada (2: British Columbia), Germany (1), Romania (1), United States (3: California, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of Brazil (1), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (13: California, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (1), Denmark (1), Greenland (1), Poland (4), United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Germany (1), Japan (5), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (24: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Peru (1)
Total: 167 collections including 192 occurrences
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