Superfamily Scissurelloidea Gray 1847 (snail)

Gastropoda - Lepetellida

Alternative spelling: Scissurellacea

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Geiger 2006 and Lozouet et al. 2001

Sister taxa: Fissurelloidea, Haliotoidea, Lepetelloidea, Lepetodriloidea

Subtaxa: Anatomidae Scissurellidae

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (1), China (1), French Polynesia (1), Greenland (3), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (2), Portugal (1), the Seychelles (1), Tonga (1), Tuvalu (1), United States (1: California), Vanuatu (2)

• Pliocene of Spain (6)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), France (6), Italy (1), the Marshall Islands (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (1)

• Oligocene of Denmark (2), France (6)

• Eocene of France (2), New Zealand (3), Tonga (1), United States (1: Washington)

• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Greenland (1)

• Cretaceous of United States (1: California)

• Jurassic of Poland (1), Turkey (2)

• Triassic of Italy (1)

Total: 61 collections including 97 occurrences

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