Subfamily Protominae Marwick 1957 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

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

See also Allmon 1996, Bouchet et al. 2005 and Harzhauser et al. 2009

Sister taxa: Actaeonema, Caucasella, Colpospirella, Cristispira, Eligmostoma, Haustator, Incatella, Kapalmerella, Mariacolpus, Nairiella, Omalaxinae, Orectospirinae, Palmerella, Pareorinae, Springvaleia, Torcula, Torquesiella, Trobus, Turriola, Turritellinae, Turritellopsinae, Turritellopsis, Vermiculariinae

Subtaxa: Protoma

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Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of South Africa (1 collection), Spain (1)

• Pliocene of India (1)

• Miocene of Austria (1), France (3), India (2), Italy (15), Pakistan (3), Portugal (1)

• Oligocene of Hungary (2), India (1), Pakistan (5)

• Eocene of France (1)

Total: 37 collections including 44 occurrences

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