Gastropoda - Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Alternative spellings: Clavus (Crassispira), Drillia (Crassispira)
Parent taxon: Pseudomelaniidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2011
See also Addicott 1970, Baluk 2003, Berry 1940, Dey 1961, Durham 1944, Fallon 2011, Gardner 1948, Harzhauser 2007, Kensley 1972, Ladd 1982, Landau and Marques da Silva 2010, MacNeil 1960, Mukerjee 1939, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001, Vredenburg 1921, Wilson 1994, Woodring 1928 and Woodring 1970
Sister taxa: Angulasina, Antiplanes, Bourguetia, Compsodrillia, Epidirona, Fusoidella, Glossispira, Hudlestonella, Leucosyrinx, Liocium, Lioglyphostoma, Maesiella, Malbalnella, Mesospira, Miraclathurella, Monilispira, Paosia, Pericarinata, Pilsbryspira, Pseudomelania, Ptychobela, Ramina, Tiariturris, Zonulispira, Carinodrillia, Inquisitor, Clavatoma, Austrodrillia
Subtaxa: Clavus (Crassispira) bravinderi Crassispira (Burchia) Crassispira (Crassispira) Crassispira (Crassispirella) Crassispira (Tripia) Crassispira abundans Crassispira apicata Crassispira bottae Crassispira capella Crassispira conica Crassispira fuscescens Crassispira guayana Crassispira kachhensis Crassispira losquemadica Crassispira luctuosa Crassispira maonisriparum Crassispira olcesensis Crassispira perrugata Crassispira ponida Crassispira seminflata Crassispira starri Crassispira tyloessa Crassispira woodringi Drillia (Crassispira) bataviana Drillia (Crassispira) birmanica Drillia (Crassispira) constricta Drillia (Crassispira) dalabeensis Drillia (Crassispira) iravadica Drillia (Crassispira) kamaensis Drillia (Crassispira) logani Drillia (Crassispira) mekranica Drillia (Crassispira) mindegyiensi Drillia (Crassispira) myaukmigonensis Drillia (Crassispira) promensis Drillia (Crassispira) subbataviana Drillia (Crassispira) subpromensis Drillia (Crassispira) tittabweensis Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi
Type: Pleurotoma bottae
Ecology: epifaunal
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (3 collections), Costa Rica (4), Cuba (1), Jamaica (1), Panama (1), Taiwan (7), United States (8: California, Florida, North Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (3), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (1), Fiji (2), India (1), Italy (15), Jamaica (4), Japan (2), Panama (5), the Philippines (2), Trinidad and Tobago (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: California), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Colombia (11), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Grenada (3), India (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Myanmar (7), the Netherlands (2), Pakistan (2), Panama (10), South Africa (1), United States (15: California, Florida), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Myanmar (1), Oman (1), United States (16: Florida, Mississippi)
• Eocene of France (5), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (9)
Total: 173 collections including 226 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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