Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Full reference: W. D. Warren. 2005. Kapalmerella, a new name for the genus Palmerella Allmon, 1996 (Gastropoda: Turritellidae) preoccupied by Palmerella Cameron, 1908 (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Journal of Paleontology 79(6):1234-1234
Parent taxon: Turritellidae according to W. D. Warren 2005
Sister taxa: Actaeonema, Caucasella, Colpospirella, Cristispira, Eligmostoma, Haustator, Incatella, Mariacolpus, Nairiella, Omalaxinae, Orectospirinae, Palmerella, Pareorinae, Protominae, Springvaleia, Torcula, Torquesiella, Trobus, Turriola, Turritellinae, Turritellopsinae, Turritellopsis, Vermiculariinae
Subtaxa: Kapalmerella alveata Kapalmerella arenicola Kapalmerella dumblei Kapalmerella mortoni Kapalmerella pleboides Kapalmerella ranikoti
Type: Turritella mortoni
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of India (1 collection), Indonesia (15), Iran (1), Pakistan (3)
• Miocene of India (5), Indonesia (4), Iran (1), Myanmar (1), Pakistan (6), South Africa (1)
• Oligocene of India (1), Myanmar (1)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), India (2), Mexico (3), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (91: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1), India (1), Pakistan (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (69: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
Total: 212 collections including 237 occurrences
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