Fossils of Clausinella are found in marine strata from the Eocene to the Quaternary (age range: from 48.6 to 0 million years ago). Fossils are known from many localities in Europe, Argentina, Brazil, Morocco, Yemen, Australia, India and Indonesia.^[2]

Species within this genus include:^[3]

• Clausinella fasciata da Costa, 1778
• Clausinella punctigera (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1906)
• †Clausinella scalaris (H.G. Bronn, 1831)^[4]

Species Clausinella gayi L.-H. Hupé, 1854 has been designated a synonym of Tawera elliptica (Lamarck, 1818)