Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Parent taxon: Bittiinae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Addicott 1970, Beu et al. 1990, Durham 1944, Givens and Kennedy 1976, Harris and Palmer 1947, Harzhauser 2002, Hoerle 1972, Ladd 1972, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Perrilliat et al. 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Shuto 1978, Squires 1987, Squires 1988, Stilwell et al. 2004, Todd 2001, Vera-Peláez et al. 2004, Ward and Blackwelder 1987, Weisbord 1962, Wienrich 2001 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxon: Agapibittium
Subtaxa: Bittium (Bittium) Bittium (Brachybittium) Bittium (Cacozeliana) Bittium (Cerithidium) Bittium (Elachista) Bittium (Semibittium) Bittium (Stylidium) Bittium (Zebittium) Bittium arnoldi Bittium bramkampi Bittium cliffensis Bittium deshayesi Bittium howardi Bittium kamalae Bittium koeneni Bittium latreilli Bittium longissimum Bittium munitum Bittium nugatorium Bittium oamaruticum Bittium oedumi Bittium pabloensis Bittium parvulum Bittium preussi Bittium purnimae Bittium quilonense Bittium reticulatum Bittium reticulatum Bittium scotti Bittium serenum Bittium spina Bittium topangensis Bittium yaguense
Type: Murex reticulatus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (5 collections), China (3), the Dominican Republic (1), Eritrea (1), France (2), Italy (5), Japan (2), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (9), the Netherlands (1), Poland (4), Portugal (11), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (8), Tuvalu (1), United States (15: California, Florida, North Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (5: California, Oregon)
• Pliocene of Australia (2), Belgium (1), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Greece (3), Indonesia (5), Italy (6), Jamaica (2), Japan (5), the Marshall Islands (1), South Africa (1), United States (3: California, Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Austria (13), Brazil (1), Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (13), France (5), Georgia (1), Germany (44), Greece (2), India (2), Iran (1), Italy (3), Japan (5), Kazakhstan (1), the Marshall Islands (4), the Netherlands (1), Panama (25), Poland (7), the Russian Federation (3), Slovakia (5), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Ukraine (1), United States (24: California, Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of Belgium (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), France (35), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Romania (1), United States (5: Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (1), France (11), Haiti (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Mexico (1), Spain (28), the United Kingdom (3), United States (59: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (1), Denmark (2), Germany (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (2), United States (24: Alabama, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (1), Poland (1), United States (2: Mississippi, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 470 collections including 560 occurrences
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