Gastropoda - Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Synonyms: Crassispiridae Morrison 1966, Crassispirinae Morrison 1966
Parent taxon: Pseudomelanoidea according to C. S. Cataldo 2017
See also Allison 1955, Beu et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2011, Bouchet et al. 2005, Fallon 2011, Harzhauser 2004, Harzhauser 2007, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Ponder and Warén 1988, Squires and Saul 2003, Squires and Saul 2004 and Wilson 1994
Sister taxon: Trajanellidae
Subtaxa: Angulasina Antiplanes Austrodrillia Bourguetia Carinodrillia Clavatoma Compsodrillia Crassispira Epidirona Fusoidella Glossispira Hudlestonella Inquisitor Leucosyrinx Liocium Lioglyphostoma Maesiella Malbalnella Mesospira Miraclathurella Monilispira Paosia Pericarinata Pilsbryspira Pseudomelania Ptychobela Ramina Tiariturris Zonulispira
Ecology: epifaunal
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (3 collections), Costa Rica (4), Cuba (1), Fiji (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (5), Panama (3), Taiwan (7), Thailand (2), United States (45: Alaska, California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1), South Africa (1), United States (2: Oregon, Washington)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Costa Rica (7), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (5), Fiji (2), India (1), Indonesia (4), Italy (19), Jamaica (6), Japan (6), Mexico (1), Panama (18), the Philippines (3), Trinidad and Tobago (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (10: California, Florida, Oregon), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (4), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Colombia (11), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (2), Fiji (1), France (1), Germany (35), Grenada (3), India (4), Indonesia (5), Italy (1), Japan (4), Mexico (2), Myanmar (7), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (7), Pakistan (2), Panama (38), the Philippines (1), South Africa (2), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (17: California, Delaware, Florida, Washington), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Haiti (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Canada (2: British Columbia), Myanmar (1), New Zealand (3), Oman (1), United States (19: Florida, Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), France (5), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (9)
• Paleocene of Greenland (2), India (1), New Zealand (2)
• Cretaceous of Albania (1), Angola (1), Argentina (5), Austria (2), Canada (4: British Columbia), Chile (1), France (2), Hungary (1), Japan (5), Madagascar (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (21), the Russian Federation (5), South Africa (2), Sweden (1), Switzerland (4), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkmenistan (1), United States (67: California, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah), Yemen (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (4), Chile (8), Ethiopia (1), France (21), Germany (9), Greenland (22), Hungary (4), India (15), Iran (3), Israel (4), Italy (1), Jordan (6), Kenya (3), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (6), Portugal (12), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (10), Somalia (1), Spain (57), Tanzania (15), Tunisia (7), the United Kingdom (68), United States (3: Idaho, Utah), Yemen (7)
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Chile (1), China (2), France (1), Hungary (3), India (1), Italy (20), New Zealand (2), Peru (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), United States (3: Alaska)
• Permian of United States (4: Alaska, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 848 collections including 1109 occurrences