Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Synonym: Otospira Perner 1903 [objective synonym]
Full reference: J. Perner. 1903. Gastéropodes, Tome 1: Patellidae et Bellerophontidae 1-164
Parent taxon: Platyceratidae according to J. B. Knight et al. 1960
See also Perner 1911 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Barynema, Basiplanus, Brokenriveria, Cancellator, Cancelloplatyceras, Compsonema, Crossoceras, Cyclonema, Devononema, Dyeria, Euthyrhachis, Globulonema, Himantonia, Lotzia, Naticellina, Naticonoda, Natirhenia, Nonorios, Obscuropsis, Paffrathia, Palaeocapulus, Platyceras, Platyostoma, Platyschisma, Ploconema, Praenatica, Pseudoplatyceras, Pseudorthonychiinae, Ptychospirina, Radvanospira, Rhabdocantha, Spinyplatyceras, Spiranodus, Spironemella, Strophostylus, Strotostoma, Stuckenbergispira, Tachloconcha
Subtaxa: Naticonema kauffmani Naticonema similare Naticonema similaris
Type: Naticonema similare
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal coprophage
Distribution:
• Devonian of United States (14: New York, Pennsylvania collections)
• Silurian of Canada (4: Nova Scotia, Ontario), the Czech Republic (2), United States (7: Illinois, Indiana, New York, Oklahoma, West Virginia)
Total: 27 collections including 29 occurrences
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