†subfamily Omospirinae Wenz 1938 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae

Full reference: W. Wenz. 1938. Handbuch der Paläozoologie; Gastropoda. Handbuch der Paläozoologie 1-240

Parent taxon: Loxonematidae according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Frýda 2000, Knight et al. 1960 and Nützel and Ketwetsuriya 2016

Sister taxa: Aulacostrepsis, Australoxa, Clathronema, Cookiloxa, Heideckernema, Katoptychia, Loxonema, Nodoloxonema, Perneratia, Stylonema, Tyrsoecus, Holopella

Subtaxa: Omospira Rhabdostropha Spiroecus

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of United States (15: New York collections)

• Silurian of Canada (2: Quebec), China (1), Norway (2), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (6)

• Ordovician of Canada (23: Ontario, Quebec), the United Kingdom (6), United States (39: Alaska, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, New York, Tennessee, Virginia)

Total: 95 collections including 101 occurrences

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