Gastropoda - Ptenoglossa - Vasidae
Alternative spelling: Fasciolaria (Tudicla)
Synonym: Tudicula Ryckholt 1862 [objective synonym]
Parent taxon: Vasidae according to E. Gliozzi and A. Malatesta 1983
See also Abbass 1967, Harzhauser 2002, Rosenberg and Petit 1987, Sepkoski 2002 and Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992
Sister taxa: Eovasum, Lupira, Ptychatractus, Sceptrum
Subtaxa: Tudicla (Tudicla) Tudicla aegyptiaca Tudicla angulata Tudicla cassidariformis Tudicla costata Tudicla secans Tudicla thebaica Tudicla turbinata Tudicla umbilicaris Tudicula (Tudicula) Tudicula alta Tudicula bispinosa Tudicula hourcqi Tudicula ishiii Tudicula sulcata Tudicula zanzibaricum
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of India (1 collection)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (3), France (3), Italy (2)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Egypt (2), United States (1: Mississippi)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Maryland)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Egypt (1), Greenland (2), Poland (1), United States (3: Maryland, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Chile (1), Egypt (1), Mozambique (1), Poland (5)
Total: 36 collections including 43 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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