Subfamily Fissurellinae Fleming 1822 (snail)

Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae

Parent taxon: Fissurellidae according to B. M. Landau et al. 2016

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, DeVries 2008, Knight et al. 1960, Lozouet et al. 2001, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995 and Wilson 1993

Sister taxa: Altrix, Austriacopsis, Emarginulinae, Hemitoma, Leurolepas, Lucapina, Lucapinella, Nesta, Parmophorus, Puncturella, Subemarginula, Zeidora

Subtaxa: Amblychilepas Atractotrema Cosmetalepas Diodorini Fissurella Macroschisma Medusafissurella Megatebennus

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Argentina (8), Australia (3), the Bahamas (3), Bermuda (9), Brazil (2), Cayman Islands (2), Chile (5), Costa Rica (5), Cuba (3), Djibouti (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (3), Greece (1), Haiti (3), Ireland (1), Italy (2), Jamaica (2), Japan (4), Kenya (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Mayotte (1), Mexico (30), Morocco (10), Mozambique (1), Namibia (3), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Papua New Guinea (2), Peru (7), Saudi Arabia (6), South Africa (10), Spain (7), United States (96: California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (2), Yemen (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1), United States (1: California)

• Pliocene of Chile (1), Cyprus (1), Ecuador (1), Greece (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Jamaica (5), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Panama (1), Peru (7), South Africa (8), Spain (6), Trinidad and Tobago (11), the United Kingdom (1), United States (29: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (10)

• Neogene of Chile (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Argentina (1), Australia (1), Austria (6), Belgium (1), Brazil (6), Chile (4), Cyprus (3), the Dominican Republic (1), France (2), Germany (1), Greece (2), Grenada (2), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (3), Jamaica (1), Malta (1), the Marshall Islands (3), Moldova (6), Morocco (2), Palau (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), Poland (3), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (29: California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (3: Florida)

• Oligocene of Japan (1), United States (9: Mississippi, North Carolina)

• Eocene of France (7), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (54: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Belgium (3), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (2), Nigeria (1), United States (15: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland)

• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Cameroon (1), New Zealand (2), South Africa (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Jurassic of United States (1: California)

Total: 532 collections including 697 occurrences

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