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Batillaria sp.

genus Batillaria Benson, 1842

• Modern species: early Eocene - Present (55.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Gastropoda, family Batillariidae

• Distribution
• Miocene: Akita, Gifu, Okayama, Shimane, Yamaguchi
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Saitama
• Quaternary: Hiroshima
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Nagano, Ishikawa, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi, Oita
• Holocene: Toyama, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Aichi

• Subtaxa
• B. attramentaria, Japanese false cerith
• B. mizunamiensis
• B. multiformis
• B. toshioi
• B. zonalis