211
Table 6.1 Most important gastropod families having a parasitic or similar life style and several diverse fossil putative parasitic families based on analogy
Host
Occurrence
Living species Subclass
Pyramidellidae
Polychaeta, Mollusca
mJurassic (Bathonian)–Recent
>6000
Heterobranchia
Eulimidae
Echinodermata
lCretaceous (Campanian) –Recent
>1000
Caenogastropoda
Epitoniidae
Anthozoa
 lCretaceous (Campanian)–Recent
>700
Caenogastropoda
Architectonicidae
Anthozoa
lTriassic (Carnian)–Recent
140
Heterobranchia
Mathildidae
Anthozoa
mTriassic (Anisian)–Recent
 80
Heterobranchia
Coralliophilidae
Anthozoa
lCretaceous (Campanian)–Recent
200–250
Caenogastropoda
Triphoridae
Porifera (Demospongia)
Paleogene (Danian)–Recent
>1000
Caenogastropoda
Cerithiopsidae ss
Porifera (Demospongia)
Paleogene (Danian)–Recent
>1000
Caenogastropoda
Ovulidae
Anthozoa
 lCretaceous (Cenomanian)–Recent
400
Caenogastropoda
Platyceratidae/Orthonychiidae Echinodermata (Crinoida) Ordovician (Arenigian)–Permian (Capitanian)
––
?
By analogy
Pseudozygopleuridae
––
Carboniferous (Tournaisian)–Early Triassic (Griesbachian) ––
Caenogastropoda
Zygopleuridae
––
Early Triassic (Smithian)– Cretaceous (Albian)
––
Caenogastropoda
Protorculidae
––
Early Triassic (Smithian)–Middle Jurassic
––
Caenogastropoda
Donaldinidae
––
Middle Devonian (Givetian)–Triassic (Carnian) (Recent?) ––
Heterobranchia
Streptacididae
––
Carboniferous (Tournaisian)–Cretaceous (Campanian)
––
Heterobranchia
Meekospiridae
––
Carboniferous (Tournaisian)– Permian (Changhsingian)
––
Caenogastropoda
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