Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Alternative spelling: Calyptraea (Sigapatella)
Synonym: Trochella Gray 1867
Parent taxon: Calyptraeidae according to H. H. Camacho et al. 2000
See also Beu et al. 1990, Knight 1941 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bostrycapulus, Calyptraea, Calyptroides, Calyptropsis, Clypeola, Crepidula, Crepipatella, Crucibulum, Ergaea, Galeropsis, Grandicrepidula, Maoricrypta, Thylacus, Trochita, Verticumbo, Zegalerus
Subtaxa: Sigapatella americana Sigapatella echinulata Sigapatella mapalia Sigapatella novazelandiae Sigapatella vertex
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), India (1)
• Miocene of New Zealand (11)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (8)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (12)
• Paleocene of France (1), Greenland (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 46 collections including 48 occurrences
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