Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Cryptaulacidae
Parent taxon: Cerithioidea according to C. S. Cataldo 2017
See also Bouchet et al. 2017, Gründel and Kaim 2006 and Gründel et al. 2011
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Bigotella Cerithinella Cirsocerithium Cryptaulax Exelissa Exelissinae Francocerithium Kosmopleurinae Shurovites
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (2 collections), Austria (1), China (1), France (1), Germany (4), Hungary (1), Indian Ocean (1), Japan (5), Madagascar (2), Poland (43), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (12), Chile (1), China (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), France (7), Germany (68), Hungary (1), India (11), Italy (1), Kenya (1), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), Poland (32), Switzerland (3), Tanzania (3), Tunisia (8), the United Kingdom (14)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Hungary (1), Iran (3), Italy (4), Peru (3), United States (1: Idaho)
Total: 246 collections including 290 occurrences