Gastropoda - Patellida - Acmaeidae
Alternative spelling: Acmaeadae
Full reference: E. Forbes. 1850. Reports of the 19th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Birmingham, 1849). Notices and abstracts of communications
Parent taxon: Lottioidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017
See also Abbott 1974, Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Clark and Arnold 1923, Ferrari 2014, Harzhauser and Kowalke 2002, Hickman 1980, Jeffery 2003, Knight et al. 1960, Kosnik 2002, Lozouet et al. 2001, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Sohl 1964, Stilwell et al. 2004 and Todd 2001
Sister taxa: Lepetidae, Lepetopsidae, Lottiidae, Nacellidae, Neolepetopsidae, Pectinodontidae
Subtaxa: Acmaeinae Asteracmea Bathyacmaea Chiazacmea Conorhytis Deslongchampsia Hamptoniella Naccula Patelloidinae Pseudorhytidopilus Rhodopetalinae Scurriopsis Serradonta Tectura
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Canada (6: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut), Greenland (6), Iceland (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), South Africa (1), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene of Italy (1), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Miocene of France (1), Kazakhstan (1)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of United States (4: California)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Japan (4)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), France (2), Germany (2), Greenland (3), Hungary (2), Italy (2), Luxembourg (2), Tanzania (3), the United Kingdom (2)
• Triassic of China (3)
Total: 60 collections including 75 occurrences