Family Plesiotrochidae Houbrick 1990 (snail)
Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Plesiotrochidae
Parent taxon: Campaniloidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Beesley 1998, Harzhauser 2004 and Lozouet et al. 2001
Sister taxa: Campanilidae, Diozoptyxidae, Pleisotrochidae, Trypanaxidae, Tylostomatidae
Subtaxa: Plesiotrochus
Type: Plesiotrochus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (3 collections), the Marshall Islands (1), United States (1: Hawaii)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1)
• Miocene of France (1), Indonesia (3), the Marshall Islands (5)
• Oligocene of Iran (1)
Total: 16 collections including 18 occurrences