Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Parent taxon: Aporrhainae according to H. A. Kollmann 2009
See also Harzhauser 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Stanton 1895 and Wienrich 2001
Sister taxa: Biculteriala, Dicroloma, Diempterus, Monocuphus, Tessarolax, Trilemna
Subtaxa: Aporrhais (Aporrhais) Aporrhais biangulata Aporrhais bicarinata Aporrhais clarendonensis Aporrhais dingdenensis Aporrhais drachuki Aporrhais dutrugei Aporrhais gracilis Aporrhais gregaria Aporrhais occidentalis Aporrhais pespelecani Aporrhais pugens Aporrhais rapax Aporrhais semilaevis Aporrhais sowerbii Aporrhais speciosa Aporrhais uttingeriana
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: Newfoundland and Labrador collections), Ireland (1), Italy (15), Morocco (1), Spain (2)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Greece (2), Italy (11), the Netherlands (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (7)
• Miocene of Austria (6), Belgium (5), Denmark (1), France (5), Germany (44), Greece (2), Italy (9), the Netherlands (2), Poland (1), Romania (2), Türkiye (1)
• Oligocene of Denmark (1), France (19), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Hungary (1), the Netherlands (1), United States (3: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (1), Germany (1), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (1: Alabama)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Denmark (5), Egypt (2), Greenland (1), Poland (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (8: Alabama, California, Maryland, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (9), Argentina (4), Brazil (8), Cameroon (4), Chile (2), Egypt (19), France (6), Gabon (2), Germany (5), Libya (4), Madagascar (1), Mexico (4), New Zealand (3), Oman (1), Poland (12), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (12), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (11: California, Minnesota, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), Portugal (5), Saudi Arabia (14), Somalia (3)
Total: 321 collections including 368 occurrences
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