Cerithiella Verrill 1882 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Triforidae

Synonym: Newtoniella Cossmann 1893

Parent taxon: Triforidae according to S. Tracey and J. A. Todd 1996

See also Abbass 1967, Adegoke 1977, Allison 1955, Darragh 2017, Dockery 1993, Harris and Palmer 1947, Sepkoski 2002, Sohl 1964, Vaught et al. 1989 and Wienrich 2001

Sister taxon: Variseila

Subtaxa: Cerithiella (Cerithiella) Cerithiella (Stilus) Cerithiella aequalirata Cerithiella elongata Cerithiella limula Cerithiella nodoliratum Cerithiella ouachitensis Cerithiella semirugatum

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Australia (1 collection), Jamaica (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (4), Australia (2), France (1), Germany (20), Italy (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), Denmark (2), France (1), United States (5: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Australia (4), Belgium (1), Colombia (3), Egypt (1), France (2), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (42: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas), Venezuela (2)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)

• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (6), France (1), Greenland (2), Nigeria (1), Poland (2), United States (6: Alabama, Louisiana, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Egypt (1), Mexico (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (31: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)

Total: 162 collections including 204 occurrences

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