Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Pseudophoridae
Synonym: Palaeonustidae Wenz 1938
Full reference: S. A. Miller. 1889. North American geology and palaeontology for the use of amateurs, students and scientists 1-664
Parent taxon: Euomphaloidea according to P. Jeffery 2003
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Knight et al. 1960, Kulas and Batten 1997, Ponder and Warén 1988 and Wagner 1999
Sister taxa: Anomphalidae, Elasmonematidae, Euomphalidae, Helicotomidae, Holopeidae, Kitikamispira, Lesueurillidae, Microdomatidae, Neoplatyteichum, Nettersheimia, Omphalocirridae, Omphalocirrinae, Omphalotrochidae, Ornollus, Planitrochidae, Pycnomphalidae, Rhenomphalus, Serpulospira, Tychobraheidae
Subtaxa: Astralites Bergmadsenella Decorospirinae Devonoconica Gaspephorus Kowalatrochus Pagodea Palaeonustus Peelophorus Petrochus Protocalyptraea Pseudophorinae Pseudophorus Pseudotectus Sallya Scalaetrochus Shedhornia Siluriphorus Taemasotrochus Yochelsonatia
Type: Pseudophorus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (1: Maryland collection)
• Triassic of Hungary (1), Italy (2)
• Permian of China (2), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (19: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of Ireland (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian of Australia (11), Austria (10), Canada (6: Manitoba, Ontario), China (1), the Czech Republic (10), France (1), Germany (8), Italy (1), Morocco (4), Poland (12), the Russian Federation (1), United States (15: Alaska, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio)
• Silurian of Canada (1: Ontario), China (2), the Czech Republic (2), Sweden (11), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)
• Ordovician of United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 132 collections including 158 occurrences