Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Parent taxon: Marginellidae according to J. A. Todd 2001
See also DuBar 1958, Durham 1944, Gardner 1947, Gardner 1948, Ladd 1982, MacNeil 1960, Mansfield 1925, Marasti 1973, Martin 1904, Mukerjee 1939, Olsson 1967, Olsson and Harbison 1953, Oostingh 1935, Palmer 1937, Sepkoski 2002, Woodring 1928 and Woodring 1970
Sister taxa: Alaginella, Austroginella, Canalispira, Carinaginella, Cryptospira, Dentimargo, Eratoidea, Glabella, Granula, Hyalina, Marginellinae, Marginelloninae, Mesoginella, Microvulina, Ovaginella, Pillarginella, Protoginella, Serrata, Triginella, Volutella, Volvarina, Volvarinella
Subtaxa: Marginella (Cypraeolina) Marginella (Marginella) Marginella (Nudifaba) Marginella (Stazzania) Marginella adumbrata Marginella ballista Marginella brassoensis Marginella bruchardi Marginella bulbrooki Marginella caerulescens Marginella calvertensis Marginella capensis Marginella cordiformis Marginella culleni Marginella cypraeaeformis Marginella dalli Marginella dalliana Marginella dariensis Marginella denticulata Marginella dentifera Marginella eburnea Marginella elevata Marginella faba Marginella glabella Marginella guaica Marginella guppyana Marginella halensis Marginella hematita Marginella hispaniolana Marginella instabilata Marginella latior Marginella macdonaldi Marginella majuscula Marginella mala Marginella maoensis Marginella martini Marginella mindiensis Marginella minuta Marginella multifilosa Marginella musacina Marginella nipponica Marginella ovata Marginella ovulata Marginella pemphix Marginella pulchra Marginella quinqueplicata Marginella semen Marginella shepardae Marginella silabra Marginella silicifluvia Marginella simplicissima Marginella singuensis Marginella solitaria Marginella sowerbyi Marginella varia
Type: Voluta glabella
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), China (1), Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (2), Eritrea (1), India (1), Japan (1), Morocco (6), Namibia (2), Panama (1), Peru (1), South Africa (4), Spain (7), United States (30: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), South Africa (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (3), the Dominican Republic (8), Ecuador (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (2), Mexico (1), Panama (1), the Philippines (1), Portugal (1), South Africa (3), United States (18: California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (7), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Argentina (1), Brazil (4), Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (58), Haiti (1), India (4), Indonesia (10), Italy (5), Mexico (1), Moldova (1), New Zealand (5), Panama (3), Peru (1), Romania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (5), United States (13: Florida, Maryland, South Carolina), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Haiti (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Myanmar (1), New Zealand (3), United States (8: Georgia, Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene of Australia (4), Bulgaria (1), France (8), Hungary (1), Italy (2), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (52: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of United States (2: Texas)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: Texas)
• Permian of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 330 collections including 419 occurrences
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