†superfamily Cirroidea Bandel 1993 (snail)

Gastropoda - Vetigastropoda

Full reference: K. Bandel. 1993. Evolutionary history of sinistral archaeogastropods with and without slit (Cirroidea, Vetigastropods). Freiberger Forschungshefte 450(1):41-81

Parent taxon: Vetigastropoda according to S. M. Ferrari 2014

See also Gischler et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Amberleyoidea, Angarioidea, Blodgettella, Crosseolidae, Frydatinus, Jurassiphorus, Lepetellida, Microdomatoidea, Nodoconus, Pendromidae, Pleurotomariida, Pleurotomarioidea, Ptychomphaloidea, Purkynespira, Schizogonioidea, Seguenziida, Seguenzioidea, Selenimorpha, Trochina, Trochoidea, Turbinoidea

Subtaxa: Cirridae Discohelicidae

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (1: Florida collection)

• Eocene of France (1)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), United States (4: California)

• Cretaceous of Austria (3), France (7), Germany (3), Hungary (1), Japan (4), Madagascar (8), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)

• Jurassic of Argentina (3), Chile (1), China (1), Egypt (2), France (3), Germany (4), Hungary (65), India (1), Israel (3), Italy (11), Kenya (1), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (1), Morocco (7), Saudi Arabia (20), Somalia (1), Spain (3), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (3), Yemen (2)

• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), China (14), Italy (3), New Zealand (2), Peru (12), Turkey (1), United States (1: Idaho)

• Permian of Tunisia (1)

Total: 209 collections including 279 occurrences

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