Gastropoda - Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Full reference: F. J. Pictet and G. Campiche. 1862. Déscription des fossiles du terrain crétacé des environs de Sainte-Croix. Matériaux pour la Paléontologie Suisse Série 2 3:1-752
Parent taxon: Pseudomelaniidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Kaim 2004, Kase 1984 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Angulasina, Antiplanes, Bourguetia, Compsodrillia, Crassispira, Epidirona, Fusoidella, Glossispira, Hudlestonella, Leucosyrinx, Liocium, Lioglyphostoma, Maesiella, Malbalnella, Mesospira, Miraclathurella, Monilispira, Paosia, Pericarinata, Pilsbryspira, Ptychobela, Ramina, Tiariturris, Zonulispira, Carinodrillia, Clavatoma, Inquisitor, Austrodrillia
Subtaxa: Pseudomelania (Oonia) Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha) Pseudomelania aonis Pseudomelania colusaensis Pseudomelania feruglioi Pseudomelania frankei Pseudomelania gaudryi Pseudomelania goniophana Pseudomelania hagenowi Pseudomelania miles Pseudomelania muensteri Pseudomelania paucispira Pseudomelania salenasensis Pseudomelania subsimilis Pseudomelania subterebra Pseudomelania subula Pseudomelania trochiformis
Ecology: epifaunal
Distribution:
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Albania (1), Angola (1), Austria (2), Chile (1), France (2), Hungary (1), Japan (5), Madagascar (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (21), South Africa (2), Sweden (1), Switzerland (4), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (10: California, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah), Yemen (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (4), Chile (6), France (17), Germany (7), Greenland (22), Hungary (4), India (15), Iran (3), Israel (3), Italy (1), Jordan (6), Kenya (2), Madagascar (1), Poland (6), Portugal (12), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (8), Somalia (1), Spain (57), Tanzania (14), Tunisia (7), the United Kingdom (57), United States (3: Idaho, Utah), Yemen (7)
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (1), France (1), Hungary (3), India (1), Italy (19), Peru (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), United States (3: Alaska)
• Permian of United States (4: Alaska, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 356 collections including 403 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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