Family Chilodontaidae Wenz 1938 (snail)

Gastropoda - Seguenzioidea - Chilodontaidae

Alternative spelling: Chilodontidae

Parent taxon: Seguenzioidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017

See also Bandel 2010, Bouchet et al. 2005 and Kaim et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Adeuomphalus, Ancistrobasidae, Eucyclidae, Laubellidae, Seguenziidae, Pseudoturcicidae, Eucycloscalidae, Sabrinellidae, Eucycloidea galaczi, Eunemopsidae, Pagodatrochidae

Subtaxa: Calliovarica Callotrophinae Cataeginae Chilodontinae Denticulabrum Hudledonta Wilsoniconcha

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Miocene of Trinidad and Tobago (2 collections), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Colombia (1)

• Eocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (2), United States (2: California, Oregon)

• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Greenland (1), Poland (1)

• Cretaceous of France (1), Germany (1), Japan (3), Mexico (1), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: California)

• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1)

Total: 30 collections including 31 occurrences

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