Gastropoda - Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Full reference: C. S. Rafinesque. 1815. Analyse de la Nature, ou Tableau de l'Univers et des Corps Organisés 1-241
Parent taxon: Patelloidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017
See also Abbott 1974, Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Jeffery 2003, Knight et al. 1960, Kosnik 2002, Landau et al. 2016, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Stanton 1895 and van den Hoek Ostende et al. 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Patellinae Scutellastra
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (4), Chile (1), France (1), Iceland (2), Italy (1), Kenya (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (8), Namibia (4), New Zealand (1), Pitcairn (1), Portugal (10), Saudi Arabia (4), South Africa (12), Spain (12), the United Kingdom (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Greece (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), South Africa (4), Spain (3)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (2), Greece (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Poland (1), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Oligocene of Italy (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of France (5), Romania (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (2), France (1), Greenland (3), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (2), France (1), Germany (2), Japan (3), New Zealand (3), the Russian Federation (4), Switzerland (1), United States (3: California, Delaware, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (4), Greenland (1), Italy (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tanzania (4)
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (2), Indonesia (3), Italy (6), New Zealand (3), United States (3: Alaska, California)
• Permian of Germany (1), Japan (1), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 154 collections including 243 occurrences