Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae
Parent taxon: Capulidae according to M. Harzhauser 2007
See also Gardner 1947, Harris and Palmer 1947, Ladd 1972, Ladd 1982, Mukerjee 1939, Sepkoski 2002, Wienrich 2001, Wilson 1993 and Woodring 1928
Sister taxa: Hyala, Icuncula, Lippistes, Lysinae, Neojanacus, Pileopsis, Sirius, Trichotropis, Zelippistes, Armenostoma
Subtaxa: Capulus (Brocchia) Capulus (Capulus) Capulus (Zinolia) Capulus americanus Capulus anceps Capulus angustus Capulus apollinis Capulus circinatus Capulus complicatus Capulus cyrtocera Capulus epicranum Capulus gatunensis Capulus haliotis Capulus hanieli Capulus humilis Capulus hungaricus Capulus javanus Capulus junghuhni Capulus lissus Capulus lius Capulus muensteri Capulus pretiosus Capulus selcanus Capulus sigmoidalis Capulus silverthorni Capulus sundaicus Capulus tortus Capulus uncinatus Capulus ungaricus Capulus unguis Capulus varians Capulus verus Capulus welteri
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (7 collections), Argentina (1), Ecuador (1), Ireland (1), Italy (15), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), United States (1: Florida), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (3), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (6), India (1), Italy (8), Jamaica (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Austria (2), Colombia (1), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (5), France (1), Germany (3), India (1), Indonesia (3), Italy (2), Poland (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Oman (1), United States (3: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Brazil (1), France (1), Germany (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (42: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
• Paleocene of United States (5: Alabama, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Germany (1), Pakistan (1), Sweden (1), United States (23: Alabama, California, Delaware, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)
• Triassic of Hungary (1), Italy (2), United States (2: Alaska, California)
• Permian of Australia (1), Indonesia (7), United States (1: Alaska)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
• Silurian of Morocco (1)
Total: 180 collections including 212 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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