Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Ataphridae
Parent taxon: Trochoidea according to S. M. Ferrari 2014
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Gründel and Kaim 2006, Gründel et al. 2011 and Kaim 2004
Sister taxa: Angariidae, Araeonematidae, Areneidae, Calliostomatidae, Colloniidae, Epulotrochidae, Eucochlidae, Fossarinidae, Liotiidae, Metriomphalidae, Nododelphinulidae, Phasianellidae, Sclarotrardidae, Skeneidae, Solariellidae, Strianematina, Tegulidae, Trochidae, Turbinidae, Ueckerconulus, Velainellidae
Subtaxa: Ataphrinae Ataphrus Coronopsis Endianaulax Falsataphrus Lewisiellinae Teinostomopsis Trochopsidea Zircia
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Denmark (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Greenland (2), Poland (3), United States (1: Maryland)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (13), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (47: Alabama, California, Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), China (2), Egypt (1), France (5), Germany (5), Greenland (2), Hungary (12), India (26), Italy (5), Kenya (1), Poland (6), Portugal (3), Spain (4), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (7), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (3: Idaho, Utah)
• Triassic of Peru (5), United States (1: Utah)
• Permian of Italy (4)
Total: 177 collections including 198 occurrences