Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
Alternative spelling: Thylostoma
Synonyms: Varicigera Douvillé 1916, Varigera d'Orbigny 1850
Parent taxon: Tylostomatidae according to H. A. Kollmann 2009
See also Allison 1955, Global Biodiversity Information Facility 2015, Kase 1984, Sepkoski 2002 and Squires and Saul 2004
Sister taxon: Pterodonta
Subtaxa: Tylostoma (Tylostoma) Tylostoma aequatoriale Tylostoma allisoni Tylostoma cossoni Tylostoma garzana Tylostoma globosum Tylostoma laharpi Tylostoma materinum Tylostoma minimum Tylostoma ovatum Tylostoma pallaryi Tylostoma pechueli Tylostoma sergipensis Tylostoma torrubiae Tylostoma whitei Varicigera choffati
Type: Tylostoma torrubiae
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Paleocene of France (1 collection), Greenland (2)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (9), Angola (3), Argentina (1), Brazil (8), Chile (2), China (1), Egypt (49), Ethiopia (1), France (4), Gabon (8), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Iran (3), Italy (1), Japan (13), Libya (1), Mexico (9), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (6), Switzerland (14), Tunisia (4), USSR (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (6: California, New Mexico), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic of France (1), Morocco (1), Romania (1), United States (11: Utah), Yemen (1)
Total: 170 collections including 203 occurrences
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