Diastoma Deshayes 1850 (snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Diastomatidae

Parent taxon: Diastomatidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005

See also Abbass 1967, Harzhauser 2004, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Sepkoski 2002, Wilson 1993 and Woods 1922

Sister taxa: Diastomatinae, Ewekoroia, Obtortio, Teliostoma

Subtaxa: Diastoma acuminiense Diastoma acumininense Diastoma americanum Diastoma costellatum Diastoma elaenia Diastoma elongatum Diastoma insulaemaris Diastoma multispiratum Diastoma ornatum Diastoma rakhiensis Diastoma sameri

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), United States (2: California)

• Miocene of Australia (12), the Dominican Republic (1), United States (2: Delaware, New Jersey)

• Oligocene of Greece (1), Hungary (4), Iran (2), Italy (1), Romania (6), United States (1: Georgia)

• Eocene of Barbados (1), Bulgaria (4), Colombia (3), Croatia (1), Egypt (1), France (6), Germany (1), Hungary (2), Italy (2), Pakistan (1), Romania (1), Spain (15), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Florida)

• Cretaceous of Egypt (5)

Total: 80 collections including 86 occurrences

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