Family Tylostomatidae Stoliczka 1868 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae

Synonym: Tylostomidae Pchelintsev 1951

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2005 and Squires and Saul 2004

Sister taxa: Campanilidae, Diozoptyxidae, Pleisotrochidae, Plesiotrochidae, Trypanaxidae

Subtaxa: Pterodonta Tylostoma

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Argentina (1 collection), France (1), Greenland (2)

• Cretaceous of Angola (3), Argentina (1), Brazil (8), Chile (3), China (1), Egypt (61), Ethiopia (1), France (7), Gabon (8), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Iran (6), Italy (2), Japan (13), Libya (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (9), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (6), Switzerland (14), Tunisia (4), USSR (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (7: California, New Mexico), Venezuela (1)

• Jurassic of France (1), Morocco (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (6), United States (11: Utah), Yemen (1)

Total: 191 collections including 234 occurrences

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