Unitas Harris and Palmer 1947 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae

Invalid subtaxa: Cancellaria (Uxia) Jousseaume 1887 [replaced name], Uxia Jousseaume 1887 [replaced name]

Full reference: G. D. Harris and K. E. H. Palmer. 1947. The Mollusca of the Mississippi Embayment (Sabine River to the Alabama River). Pt. II. Univalves and index. Bulletins of American Paleontology 30(117):207-563

Parent taxon: Cancellariidae according to T. A. Darragh 2017

See also Beu and Raine 2009, Harris and Palmer 1947, Marks 1949, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Schnetler and Petit 2006 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Admete, Admetinae, Admetula, Agatrix, Aneurystoma, Babylonella, Calcarata, Cancellariinae, Caveola, Contortia, Egerea, Hertleinia, Mataxa, Neadmete, Perplicaria, Plesiotritoninae, Rhomboidestoma, Semitriton, Sveltia, Tribia, Trigonaphera, Trigonostoma, Tritonoharpa, Turehua

Subtaxa: Unitas elongata Uxia narica

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of New Zealand (1 collection)

• Oligocene of Belgium (2), Denmark (1), Germany (1), Hungary (2), Pakistan (2)

• Eocene of Australia (1), France (3), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (3)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Poland (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Cretaceous of United States (1: Texas)

Total: 25 collections including 44 occurrences

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