Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Synonym: Leptothyra Pease 1869
Parent taxon: Turbinidae according to H. S. Ladd 1966
See also Clark and Arnold 1923, Hendy 2007, Sepkoski 2002 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Angariinae, Anomphalinae, Arene, Astraea, Bakonyia, Bandelastraea, Coelobolma, Cynisca, Fischeriella, Flacilla, Galeoastraea, Gelasinostoma, Guizhouia, Homalopoma, Kaurnella, Klebyella, Littorinolacuna, Macrarene, Margaritinae, Moelleriinae, Moreanellinae, Nemrac, Odoardia, Prisogaster, Prisogasterinae, Prototurbo, Torallochus, Turbininae, Turboidea
Subtaxa: Collonista glareosa Leptothyra candida Leptothyra danvillensis Leptothyra inepta Leptothyra maculosa
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (2 collections), Kenya (8), the Marshall Islands (4)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Fiji (1), the Marshall Islands (12), Mexico (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1)
Total: 32 collections including 44 occurrences
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