Family Trichotropidae Gray 1850 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Trichotropidae

Alternative spelling: Trichotropididae

Parent taxon: Calyptraeoidea according to L. R. Saul and R. L. Squires 2008

See also Addicott 1970, Beu et al. 1990, Jeffery 2003, Ponder and Warén 1988, Squires and Saul 2003 and Wienrich 2001

Sister taxa: Calyptraeidae, Gyrotropidae

Subtaxa: Cerithioderma Spirocrypta Trichosirius Trichotropinae Turbinopsis Wexfordia Xuwenospira

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Ireland (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Japan (1), Panama (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Germany (1), New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of France (1), New Zealand (1), United States (2: Mississippi, Oregon)

• Eocene of Australia (1), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (33: Alabama, California, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene to Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)

• Paleocene of Greenland (1)

• Cretaceous of Germany (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (27: Arizona, California, Colorado, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas)

• Devonian of Canada (1: Alberta)

Total: 85 collections including 88 occurrences

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