Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Alternative spellings: Nerina, Nerinaea
Parent taxon: Nerineinae according to T. Kase 1984
See also Allison 1955, Raisossadat and Noori 2016, Sepkoski 2002 and von der Osten 1957
Sister taxa: Archimedea, Turbinea
Subtaxa: Nerinea (Plesioptygmatis) Nerinea capelloi Nerinea desvoidyi Nerinea gachupinae Nerinea somaliensis Nerinea stewarti Nerinea thompsonensis Nerinea timorensis
Ecology: epifaunal
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Albania (2 collections), Algeria (1), Angola (4), Chile (1), Croatia (1), Egypt (14), France (9), Gabon (1), Germany (4), Greece (1), Hungary (3), Italy (6), Japan (2), Libya (3), Mexico (11), Mozambique (2), Portugal (7), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (17), the United Kingdom (2), United States (5: Arizona, California, Texas), Venezuela (4)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Romania (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), China (1), Cuba (1), Ethiopia (11), France (7), Germany (5), Indonesia (1), Italy (3), Lebanon (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (5), Portugal (14), Saudi Arabia (22), Slovenia (2), Somalia (8), Tanzania (2), Tunisia (21), the United Kingdom (5), United States (8: California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 225 collections including 296 occurrences
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