Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Alternative spelling: Pareoridae
Parent taxon: Turritellidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017
See also Adegoke 1977, Allmon 1996, Beu et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2005, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Stilwell et al. 2004 and Titova 1994
Sister taxa: Actaeonema, Caucasella, Colpospirella, Cristispira, Eligmostoma, Haustator, Incatella, Kapalmerella, Mariacolpus, Nairiella, Omalaxinae, Orectospirinae, Palmerella, Protominae, Springvaleia, Torcula, Torquesiella, Trobus, Turriola, Turritellinae, Turritellopsinae, Turritellopsis, Vermiculariinae
Subtaxa: Batillona Craginia Mesalia Motyris Neodiastoma Pareora Sigmesalia Tachyrhynchella Woodsalia
Type: Pareora
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), Morocco (2), Spain (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (6), Japan (3), New Zealand (4)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (2), United States (2: Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene of Belgium (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), Egypt (8), France (19), Italy (1), Japan (2), Mexico (5), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (32), Poland (2), Romania (4), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (63), the United Kingdom (5), United States (109: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (5), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Colombia (2), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (3), Mexico (8), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (3), Poland (4), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (125: Alabama, Arkansas, California, California , Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Brazil (1), Egypt (3), France (1), Gabon (3), Germany (1), Iran (3), Madagascar (3), Mexico (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (9: Arizona, Texas)
• Jurassic of Italy (2)
Total: 474 collections including 552 occurrences