Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Tegulidae
Synonyms: Agathistoma, Promartynia , Tegula (Agathistoma)
Parent taxon: Tegulidae according to A. Alf 2019
See also Abbott 1974, Addicott 1970, Bouchet et al. 2005, DeVries 2007, Durham 1944, Landau et al. 2016, Sepkoski 2002, Squires and Saul 2005, Todd 2001 and Weisbord 1962
Sister taxa: Cantallocostoma, Intistoma, Norrisia, Stearnsium
Subtaxa: Agathistoma antiqua Agathistoma eiseni Agathistoma excavata Agathistoma fasciata Agathistoma panamensis Agathistoma paraguanensis Agathistoma patagonicum Agathistoma verrucosa Agathistoma viridula Promartynia pulligo Tegula (Tegula) Tegula forbesi Tegula jeanae Tegula marylandicum Tegula masiasi Tegula melaleucos Tegula pellisserpentis Tegula thea Tegula tridentata Tegula varistriata
Type: Trochus pellisserpentis
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (3 collections), the Bahamas (3), Brazil (6), Chile (8), Ecuador (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Mexico (25), Panama (1), Peru (3), United States (23: California, Florida), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Chile (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (2), Peru (1), United States (3: California, Florida, Oregon), Venezuela (8)
• Miocene of Argentina (4), Chile (1), Japan (1), Peru (3), United States (9: California, Delaware, Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of United States (3: California)
• Eocene of United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: California)
Total: 122 collections including 142 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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