Eupleura Adams and Adams 1853 (murex snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Alternative spelling: Bursa (Eupleura)

Parent taxon: Ocenebrinae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010

See also DeVries 2005, Gardner 1947, Gardner 1948, Herbert 2005, Holmes 1858, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001, Vokes 1989, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Woodring 1959

Sister taxa: Acanthina, Califostoma, Carhuaspina, Crassilabrum, Forreria, Herminespina, Jsowerbya, Kestocenebra, Mariasalpinx, Muregina, Pterorytis, Pterynopsis, Tactilispina, Urosalpinx, Vokesinotus

Subtaxa: Eupleura caudata Eupleura curta Eupleura engerrabunda Eupleura gravidentata Eupleura harbisoni Eupleura kugleri Eupleura lehneri Eupleura leonensis Eupleura limata Eupleura muriciformis Eupleura nitida Eupleura olssoni Eupleura paroudia Eupleura pectinata Eupleura pleistocenensis Eupleura plicata Eupleura prenitida Eupleura thompsoni Eupleura triquetra Eupleura urbinai Eupleura vokesorum

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Mexico (1 collection), United States (62: California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Peru (1), United States (3: Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (4)

• Miocene of Colombia (23), Ecuador (2), Mexico (1), Panama (32), Trinidad and Tobago (7), United States (3: Florida, Virginia), Venezuela (5)

• Oligocene of United States (1: North Carolina)

• Eocene of United States (1: Alabama)

• Paleocene of United States (8: Alabama, Texas)

Total: 157 collections including 162 occurrences

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