Cryptaulax (snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Cryptaulacidae

Synonyms: Cryptaulax (Xystrella) Cossmann 1906, Procerithium (Xystrella) Cossmann 1906, Xystrella Cossmann 1906

Parent taxon: Cryptaulacidae according to C. Schulbert and A. Nützel 2013

See also Ferrari 2012, Gründel 1999, Kaim 2004, Nützel 2002, Nützel and Senowbari-Daryan 1999 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Bigotella, Cerithinella, Cirsocerithium, Exelissa, Exelissinae, Francocerithium, Kosmopleurinae, Shurovites

Subtaxa: Cryptaulax abcisum Cryptaulax armatum Cryptaulax bittneri Cryptaulax convexa Cryptaulax damboreneae Cryptaulax echinata Cryptaulax gratum Cryptaulax inaequelineata Cryptaulax kulickii Cryptaulax mutabilis Cryptaulax protortile Cryptaulax quenstedti Cryptaulax redelii Cryptaulax rhabdocolpoides Cryptaulax shiptonensis Cryptaulax slatteri Cryptaulax tilarniocensis Cryptaulax tricuspis Cryptaulax variformatum Cryptaulax wawalensis

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Type: Cerithium tortile

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (1 collection), France (1), Hungary (1), Poland (43)

• Jurassic of Argentina (9), Chile (1), China (1), France (6), Germany (43), India (11), Luxembourg (1), Morocco (1), Peru (1), Poland (31), Switzerland (3), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (8), the United Kingdom (14)

• Triassic of Austria (1), Iran (3), Italy (1), Peru (3), United States (1: Idaho)

Total: 186 collections including 203 occurrences

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