Hippochrenes Monfort 1810 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae

Alternative spellings: Rostellaria (Hippochrenes), Tibia (Hippochrenes)

Parent taxon: Rostellariidae according to J. M. Pacaud 2008

See also Bhatia and Khosla 1978 and Pacaud and Le Renard 1995

Sister taxa: Africoterebellum, Amekichilus, Amplogladius, Calyptraphorinae, Calyptraphorus, Chedevillia, Cyrtulotibia, Dasyostoma, Digitolabrum, Eotibia, Mauryna, Rimellinae, Rimellopsis, Rostellariella, Semiterebellum, Sulcogladius, Terebellomimus, Terebellopsis, Wateletia

Subtaxa: Hippochrenes bailei Tibia (Hippochrenes) ampla Tibia (Hippochrenes) fissura

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Eocene of Belgium (1 collection), Bulgaria (2), France (6), India (1), Italy (2), Pakistan (10), Romania (6), the United Kingdom (7)

Total: 35 collections including 38 occurrences

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