Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Parent taxon: Architectonicidae according to H. S. Ladd 1972
See also Darragh 2017, Frassinetti and Covacevich 1981, Jensen 1996, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Woodring 1959
Sister taxa: Acutitectonica, Architectonica, Basisulcata, Calodisculus, Dinaxis, Discotectonica, Disculus, Eosolarium, Granosolarium, Heliacinae, Mangonuia, Margaritella, Patulaxis, Philippia, Pseudomalaxis, Pseudotorinia, Psilaxis, Rinaldoconchus, Spirolaxis, Torinia, Torinista, Wangaloa
Subtaxa: Heliacus (Astronacus) Heliacus (Grandeliacus) Heliacus (Heliacus) Heliacus bisulcatus Heliacus reticulatus Heliacus variegatus
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Ecuador (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Panama (1), United States (1: Hawaii)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Panama (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Fiji (1), Italy (3), the Marshall Islands (1), Panama (4), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Paleocene of Egypt (3), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 31 collections including 33 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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