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 pelsae Cryptaulax protortile Cryptaulax quenstedti Cryptaulax redelii Cryptaulax rhabdocolpoides Cryptaulax shiptonensis Cryptaulax slatteri Cryptaulax tilarniocensis Cryptaulax tricuspis Cryptaulax variformatum Cryptaulax wawalensis
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 (4), Peru (3), United States (1: Idaho)
Total: 189 collections including 207 occurrences
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