Superfamily Haliotoidea Rafinesque 1815 (snail)

Gastropoda - Lepetellida

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Jeffery 2003 and Lozouet et al. 2001

Sister taxa: Fissurelloidea, Lepetelloidea, Lepetodriloidea, Scissurelloidea

Subtaxa: Haliotidae

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (4), China (1), France (1), Greece (1), Guam (3), Italy (2), Japan (4), Mexico (21), Morocco (2), Portugal (7), Saudi Arabia (1), the Seychelles (1), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Tonga (1), United States (25: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (2)

• Pliocene of Australia (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1), South Africa (2), Spain (3), United States (3: California)

• Miocene of Algeria (10), Australia (1), Austria (2), Cyprus (2), France (1), Guam (1), Hungary (1), Italy (3), Malta (1), Moldova (4), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (3: California)

• Cretaceous of United States (2: California)

Total: 133 collections including 158 occurrences

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