Calyptraea Lamarck 1799 (slipper shell)

Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae

Parent taxon: Calyptraeidae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010

See also Abbass 1967, Addicott 1970, Adegoke 1977, Camacho et al. 2000, Clark and Arnold 1923, Devries 2019, Durham 1944, Gardner 1947, Gordillo 1991, Harris and Palmer 1947, Harzhauser 2002, Harzhauser and Mandic 2001, Hickman 1980, Kensley and Pether 1986, Martin 1904, Mukerjee 1939, Nagao 1928, Oostingh 1935, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires 1988, Squires 1999, Todd 2001, Turner 1938, Ward and Blackwelder 1987, Wienrich 2001, Wilson 1993 and Woodring 1957

Sister taxa: Bostrycapulus, Calyptroides, Calyptropsis, Clypeola, Crepidula, Crepipatella, Crucibulum, Ergaea, Galeropsis, Grandicrepidula, Maoricrypta, Sigapatella, Thylacus, Trochita, Verticumbo, Zegalerus

Subtaxa: Calyptraea (Bicatillus) Calyptraea (Calyptraea) Calyptraea (Calyptropsis) Calyptraea (Galerus) Calyptraea (Siphopatella) Calyptraea (Trochatella) Calyptraea (Turbocalyptraea) Calyptraea alta Calyptraea centralis Calyptraea chinensis Calyptraea contorta Calyptraea coreyi Calyptraea corrugata Calyptraea corrugata Calyptraea costellata Calyptraea crassa Calyptraea diabloensis Calyptraea diegoana Calyptraea dunni Calyptraea elevata Calyptraea ewekoroensis Calyptraea fastigiata Calyptraea filosa Calyptraea inornata Calyptraea kilburni Calyptraea laevigata Calyptraea lamellosa Calyptraea mamillaris Calyptraea martini Calyptraea nigeriensis Calyptraea nigeriensis Calyptraea pileus Calyptraea placuna Calyptraea ramsisi Calyptraea rugosa Calyptraea sookensis Calyptraea sorachiensis Calyptraea subtabulata Calyptraea trochiformis Calyptraea undulata

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Chile (5 collections), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), Iceland (1), Italy (12), Mexico (1), Panama (2), Peru (1), South Africa (5), Taiwan (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (35: California, Florida, Oregon, South Carolina)

• Blancan of United States (2: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (5: California)

• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (2), Greece (1), Iceland (2), India (1), Indonesia (7), Italy (6), Mexico (2), Panama (6), South Africa (6), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (10), the United Kingdom (1), United States (37: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina), Venezuela (3)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), United States (2: California)

• Neogene of Chile (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (13), Australia (4), Austria (10), Belgium (4), Brazil (2), Chile (1), Colombia (13), France (4), Germany (27), India (6), Italy (2), Japan (6), Mexico (5), Moldova (5), the Netherlands (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (27), Peru (1), Poland (1), Puerto Rico (1), Trinidad and Tobago (11), United States (63: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina), Venezuela (2)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), United States (1: California)

• Oligocene of Argentina (4), Austria (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), France (35), Germany (1), Hungary (2), Panama (2), the Russian Federation (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (43: Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)

• Eocene of Argentina (1), Colombia (1), Egypt (1), France (14), Japan (8), Nigeria (2), Panama (4), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (5), United States (125: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington)

• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: California)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Belgium (3), Denmark (3), Germany (1), Greenland (2), Mexico (1), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (4), United States (20: Alabama, California, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Texas)

• Cretaceous of France (2), South Africa (1), Switzerland (1), United States (10: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)

Total: 703 collections including 752 occurrences

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