Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Alternative spelling: Murex (Muricopsis)
Parent taxon: Muricidae according to B. Landau et al. 2007
See also Darragh 1970, Gardner 1947, Givens and Kennedy 1976, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Wilson 1994
Sister taxa: Acanthotrophon, Aspella, Atractodon, Attiliosa, Austrotrophon, Babelomurex, Boreotrophon, Calothrophon, Calotrophon, Cathymorula, Coralliophilinae, Crassimurex, Cymia, Dermomurex, Drupinae, Eofavartia, Ergalataxinae, Favartia, Hadriania, Haustrinae, Heteropurpura, Hexaplex, Homalocantha, Jaton, Lyrotyphis, Mexacanthina, Monoceros, Morula, Murexiella, Murexsul, Muricanthus, Muricidea, Muricinae, Muricopsinae, Murotriton, Nucella, Nucellopsis, Ocenebra, Ocenebrinae, Ocinebrina, Ocinebrinae, Odontopolys, Orania, Pagodula, Phyllocoma, Ponderia, Pterochelus, Pteropurpura, Pterorhytis, Pterotyphis, Pterymarchia, Pterynotus, Purpura, Purpurellus, Pygmaepterys, Rapaninae, Reishia, Shaskyus, Siphonochelus, Sohliina, Spinidrupa, Spinucella, Thaidinae, Thais, Trachypollia, Tripterotyphinae, Tritonaliinae, Trophoninae, Typhinae, Typhinellus, Typhis, Vitularia, Yasila, Yunomys
Subtaxa: Muricopsis (Muricopsis) Muricopsis (Risomurex) Muricopsis bulbosinucleus Muricopsis exhexagonus Muricopsis peregra Muricopsis vistaensis Muricopsis whitneyi
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection), Italy (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (1), India (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Spain (4), Trinidad and Tobago (6), United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Austria (2), the Dominican Republic (3), France (1), India (1), Pakistan (2), Poland (1), Romania (1), Spain (1)
• Oligocene of Denmark (2), Germany (2)
• Eocene of Indonesia (2), Pakistan (1), United States (10: California)
• Paleocene of Greenland (1)
Total: 53 collections including 60 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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