Family Lottiidae Gray 1840 (limpet)

Gastropoda - Patellida - Lottiidae

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

See also Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Lindberg and Marincovich 1988 and Todd 2001

Sister taxa: Acmaeidae, Lepetidae, Lepetopsidae, Nacellidae, Neolepetopsidae, Pectinodontidae

Subtaxa: Acmaea Erginus Lottia Lottiinae Notoacmea Patelloida Tecturinae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (6 collections), the Bahamas (3), Bermuda (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Cayman Islands (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Greenland (5), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Mexico (33), Panama (1), Peru (1), the Seychelles (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (69: Alaska, California, Florida), Uruguay (1), Vanuatu (2), Venezuela (1)

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

• Pliocene of Jamaica (6), Japan (2), Panama (1), Spain (6), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (6: California, Florida, Virginia)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Austria (2), Greenland (1), Japan (2), Poland (1), United States (3: Alaska, California), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Canada (2: British Columbia), Germany (1), Italy (1), Romania (1), United States (2: California, Oregon)

• Eocene of Brazil (1), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (29: California, Oregon, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (1), Denmark (1), Greenland (1), Poland (4), United States (1: California)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Austria (1), Germany (2), Japan (6), Poland (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (24: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of Morocco (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), the United Kingdom (2)

• Triassic of Italy (4), Peru (1), United States (2: Alaska)

Total: 272 collections including 536 occurrences

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