Alternative spelling: Kitakamispira
Full reference: T. Kase and T. Nishida. 1988. Two new Middle Devonian gastropods from the Nakazato Formation of Kitakami, Northeast Japan. Professor Tamio Kotaka commemorative volume on Molluscan paleontology 257-263
Parent taxon: Euomphaloidea according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Blodgett et al. 2001, Cook 1995 and Kase and Nishida 1988
Sister taxa: Anomphalidae, Elasmonematidae, Euomphalidae, Helicotomidae, Holopeidae, Lesueurillidae, Microdomatidae, Neoplatyteichum, Nettersheimia, Omphalocirridae, Omphalocirrinae, Omphalotrochidae, Ornollus, Planitrochidae, Pseudophoridae, Pycnomphalidae, Rhenomphalus, Serpulospira, Tychobraheidae
Subtaxa: Kitikamispira bellense Kitikamispira bicostatus Kitikamispira concinna Kitikamispira crenulistriata Kitikamispira granosus Kitikamispira hamiltoniae Kitikamispira kanekoi Kitikamispira minuitinodosa Kitikamispira minutiforma Kitikamispira monroei Kitikamispira multistriata Kitikamispira ormistoni Kitikamispira perstrialis Kitikamispira speciosum Kitikamispira tubericosta Kitikamispira ukalundensis
Type: Kitikamispira kanekoi
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (5 collections), Canada (3: Manitoba), China (1), United States (16: Alaska, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New York)
Total: 25 collections including 26 occurrences
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