Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Alternative spelling: Semibittium
Parent taxon: Bittium according to O. Mandic et al. 2002
See also Oldroyd 1925, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Palmer 1923 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bittium (Bittium), Bittium (Brachybittium), Bittium (Cacozeliana), Bittium (Cerithidium), Bittium (Elachista), Bittium (Stylidium), Bittium (Zebittium), Bittium arnoldi, Bittium bramkampi, Bittium cliffensis, Bittium deshayesi, Bittium koeneni, Bittium latreilli, Bittium longissimum, Bittium munitum, Bittium nugatorium, Bittium oamaruticum, Bittium oedumi, Bittium pabloensis, Bittium parvulum, Bittium preussi, Bittium quilonense, Bittium reticulatum, Bittium reticulatum, Bittium scotti, Bittium serenum, Bittium spina, Bittium topangensis, Bittium yaguense
Subtaxa: Bittium (Semibittium) quadricingulatum
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (2 collections), Austria (8), France (1), Georgia (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1)
• Eocene of France (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous of Poland (1)
Total: 22 collections including 23 occurrences