Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Alternative spelling: Bellerophon (Waagenella)
Full reference: L. G. de Koninck. 1883. Faune du calcaire carbonifère de la Belgique, 4e partie, Gastéropodes (suite en fin). Musée Royale d’Historie Naturelle Belgique Annales, Série Paléontoloque 8:1-240
Parent taxon: Bellerophontinae according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Gemmellaro 1889 and Knight et al. 1960
Sister taxa: Aglaoglypta, Bellerophon, Bubovicus, Khumerspira, Kodymites, Liljevallospira, Mogulia, Pharkidonotus, Praematuratropis, Ptychobellerophon, Semilukispira, Sphaerocyclus
Subtaxa: Waagenella asiaticus Waagenella claxtonensis Waagenella crassus Waagenella cylindrica Waagenella dumonti Waagenella jonesianus Waagenella lineatus Waagenella meeki Waagenella menardensis Waagenella microstriata Waagenella muensteri Waagenella pinguis Waagenella plummeri Waagenella rectistriatus Waagenella roemeri Waagenella rownhamensis Waagenella sowerbyi Waagenella vespertinus Waagenella yuani
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Cambodia (6 collections), China (4), Indonesia (5), Italy (1), Japan (2), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (42), Tunisia (1), United States (12: Texas)
• Virgilian of United States (9: Maryland, Ohio, Texas)
• Desmoinesian of United States (12: Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Atokan of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Chesterian of United States (1: Kentucky)
• Carboniferous to Permian of China (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (1), Belgium (3), China (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (16: Arizona, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New mexico, Ohio, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 124 collections including 131 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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