†family Gyrotropidae Bandel and Dockery 2012 (snail)
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Gyrotropidae
Full reference: K. Bandel and D. T. Dockery. 2012. Protoconch characters of Late Cretaceous Latrogastropoda (Neogastropoda and Neomesogastropoda) as an aid in the reconstruction of the phylogeny of the Neogastropoda. Freiberger Forschungshefte C 542:93-128
Parent taxon: Calyptraeoidea according to K. Bandel and D. T. Dockery 2012
Sister taxa: Calyptraeidae, Trichotropidae
Subtaxa: Gyrotropis
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (4: Arizona, North Carolina collections)
Total: 4 collections including 5 occurrences