Lunatia Gray 1847 (moon snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae

Alternative spellings: Natica (Lunatia), Polinices (Lunatia), Polynices (Lunatia)

Parent taxon: Naticidae according to L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder 1987

See also Kabat 1991, Marasti 1973, Martin 1904, Nagao 1928, Olsson 1931, Palmer and Brann 1966, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer and Campbell 1987 and Woodring 1938

Sister taxa: Amaurellina, Amauropsella, Amauropsina, Amauropsona, Amaurospina, Ampullospirinae, Austrocochlis, Banis, Chilocyclus, Cochlis, Eunatica, Euspirocrommium, Forator, Globisininae, Globulariinae, Gyrodinae, Magnatica, Maxwellinatica, Natica ocoyana, Naticinae, Payradeautia, Polinicinae, Sigatica, Sininae, Tanea, Taniella

Subtaxa: Lunatia chulucana Lunatia climacodes Lunatia hemicrypta Lunatia klipsteini Lunatia leptostomata Polinices (Lunatia) utoensis

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Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greenland (1 collection)

• Blancan of United States (1: California)

• Pliocene of Greece (2), Spain (1), United States (3: Alaska, Virginia)

• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (2: Alaska)

• Miocene of Austria (3), Brazil (4), Greece (2), India (1), Italy (1), United States (7: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey)

• Oligocene of Denmark (1), France (28), Mexico (3), United States (1: North Carolina)

• Eocene of Japan (4), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), Spain (12), United States (2: Texas)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Denmark (5), Greenland (4), New Zealand (2), United States (3: California, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Cameroon (1), Canada (3: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Germany (2), Mexico (7), New Zealand (4), United States (10: Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)

Total: 126 collections including 134 occurrences

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