Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Parent taxon: Crucibulum according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
See also Landau et al. 2008, Perrilliat 1987, Pilsbry and Olsson 1941, Todd 2001 and Woodring 1957
Sister taxa: Crucibulum (Crucibulum) piliferum, Crucibulum (Dispotaea), Crucibulum alloglyptum, Crucibulum fausta, Crucibulum lawrencei, Crucibulum multilineatum, Crucibulum planum, Crucibulum scutellata, Crucibulum spinosum, Crucibulum subsutum
Subtaxa: Crucibulum (Crucibulum) auricula Crucibulum (Crucibulum) chipolanum Crucibulum (Crucibulum) cubaguaense
Type: Patella auricula
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Mexico (1), United States (10: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (1), Panama (5), United States (5: Florida, Virginia), Venezuela (6)
• Miocene of Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Haiti (1), Mexico (2), Panama (29), United States (18: Florida)
Total: 86 collections including 87 occurrences