Crucibulum Schumacher 1817 (slipper shell)

Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae

Parent taxon: Calyptraeidae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010

See also Addicott 1970, Gardner 1947, Martin 1904, Perrilliat 1987, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Woodring 1957

Sister taxa: Bostrycapulus, Calyptraea, Calyptroides, Calyptropsis, Clypeola, Crepidula, Crepipatella, Ergaea, Galeropsis, Grandicrepidula, Maoricrypta, Sigapatella, Thylacus, Trochita, Verticumbo, Zegalerus

Subtaxa: Crucibulum (Crucibulum) Crucibulum (Crucibulum) piliferum Crucibulum (Dispotaea) Crucibulum alloglyptum Crucibulum fausta Crucibulum lawrencei Crucibulum multilineatum Crucibulum planum Crucibulum scutellata Crucibulum spinosum Crucibulum subsutum

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Type: Patella auricula

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Chile (5 collections), Costa Rica (1), Mexico (4), Panama (1), Peru (2), United States (45: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), United States (2: California, Florida)

• Pliocene of Chile (1), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (6), Panama (5), Trinidad and Tobago (7), United States (31: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (10)

• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Brazil (2), Colombia (25), the Dominican Republic (17), Ecuador (1), Grenada (6), Haiti (1), Mexico (2), Panama (67), Peru (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (73: California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia), Venezuela (2)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of United States (1: North Carolina)

• Eocene of Colombia (1), United States (2: North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Cretaceous of France (1), United States (6: Alabama, Mississippi)

Total: 342 collections including 422 occurrences

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