Family Phasianellidae Swainson 1840 (snail)

Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Phasianellidae

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Harzhauser et al. 2009, Jeffery 2003, Knight et al. 1960 and Kosnik 2002

Sister taxa: Angariidae, Araeonematidae, Areneidae, Ataphridae, Calliostomatidae, Colloniidae, Epulotrochidae, Eucochlidae, Fossarinidae, Liotiidae, Metriomphalidae, Nododelphinulidae, Sclarotrardidae, Skeneidae, Solariellidae, Strianematina, Tegulidae, Trochidae, Turbinidae, Ueckerconulus, Velainellidae

Subtaxa: Gabrieloninae Phasianella Phasianellinae Tricoliinae

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Type: Phasianellinae

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (3 collections), the Bahamas (1), Cayman Islands (3), China (5), Ecuador (1), Fiji (1), France (1), Haiti (2), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), the Marshall Islands (2), Mexico (6), Morocco (4), Mozambique (1), Panama (1), Portugal (2), Saudi Arabia (1), the Seychelles (2), South Africa (1), Spain (3), Tonga (1), United States (43: California, Florida), Venezuela (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (2)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Costa Rica (2), Greece (1), Italy (4), Jamaica (3), South Africa (2), Spain (5), United States (1: California), Venezuela (8)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (4), Austria (2), the Dominican Republic (2), Fiji (1), France (1), India (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), the Marshall Islands (8), Panama (4), Poland (1), Slovakia (3), South Africa (1), United States (8: Florida)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Germany (1)

• Eocene of Australia (2), France (3), Panama (2), the United Kingdom (1)

• Paleocene of Puerto Rico (1)

• Cretaceous of Greenland (1), Switzerland (1)

• Jurassic of France (4), Hungary (1), Turkey (1)

Total: 179 collections including 226 occurrences

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