Family Capulidae Fleming 1822 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae

Synonyms: Cerithiodermatidae Akopyan 1976, Cerithiodermidae Akopyan 1976

Parent taxon: Capuloidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017

See also Beesley 1998, Bouchet 2016, Bouchet et al. 2005, Harris and Palmer 1947, Harzhauser 2007, Ponder and Warén 1988, Rosenberg 2005, Sohl 1964, Squires and Saul 2005 and Wienrich 2001

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Armenostoma Capulus Hyala Icuncula Lippistes Lysinae Neojanacus Pileopsis Sirius Trichotropis Zelippistes

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (7 collections), Argentina (1), Canada (6: British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Quebec), Ecuador (1), Greenland (1), Ireland (1), Italy (15), Mayotte (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Alaska, California, Florida, Oregon), Vanuatu (1)

• Pliocene of Belgium (4), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (7), India (1), Italy (8), Jamaica (2), the United Kingdom (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (2), Austria (2), Colombia (1), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (5), France (1), Germany (3), India (1), Indonesia (3), Italy (2), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), Oman (1), United States (3: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Brazil (1), Colombia (1), France (11), Germany (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (43: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Denmark (1), United States (5: Alabama, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Germany (3), Japan (1), Pakistan (1), South Africa (1), Sweden (1), United States (74: Alabama, California, Delaware, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of France (1)

• Triassic of Hungary (1), Italy (2), United States (2: Alaska, California)

• Permian of Australia (1), Indonesia (7), United States (1: Alaska)

• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)

• Silurian of Morocco (1)

Total: 274 collections including 332 occurrences

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