BUCCINIDAE RAFINESQUE, 1815

Squires, Richard L., 2022, The earliest Ancistrolepis (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) and its geologic implications, PaleoBios 39 (2), pp. 1-11 : 5

BUCCINIDAE RAFINESQUE, 1815

Remarks— The family Buccinidae , which consists of numerous genera of predatory carnivores, originated during the Early Cretaceous (mid-Albian Stage) ( Taylor et al., 1980: fig. 7, with no accompanying geographic data). In the northeast Pacific region, the earliest known buccinid is the Late Cretaceous Eripachya Gabb, 1869 . It was endemic to California and formed a lineage of three species ( Squires and Saul 2003), whose members occurred intermittently only during the warm times of the Turonian and Campanian but not during the cooler times of the Coniacian and Santonian ( Squires 2018).