Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Hipponicidae
Parent taxon: Hipponicidae according to J. A. Todd 2001
See also Gardner 1947, Ladd 1972, MacNeil 1960, Sepkoski 2002, Weisbord 1962 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Eoatlanta, Gnaszynium, Hipponix, Krebsia, Rothpletzia, Sabia
Subtaxa: Cheilea equestris Cheilea princetonia Cheilea uncinata
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Djibouti (1), Ecuador (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Kenya (2), Spain (1), United States (2: Hawaii)
• Pliocene of Fiji (1), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (6), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Portugal (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (2: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (5), Australia (1), Austria (1), Fiji (2), the Marshall Islands (1), Poland (1), United States (7: Florida), Vanuatu (1)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (2)
• Eocene of New Zealand (1), United States (4: South Carolina)
Total: 52 collections including 53 occurrences
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