Subulites planilateralis Foerste 1893

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Subulitidae

Alternative combinations: Meekospira planilateralis, Subulites (Polyphemopsis) planilateralis

Full reference: A. F. Foerste. 1893. Fossils of the Clinton group in Ohio and Indiana. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio 7(5):516-597

Belongs to Subulites according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Foerste 1893 and Ulrich and Scofield 1897

Sister taxa: Subulites acutus, Subulites amphora, Subulites attenuatus, Subulites beloitensis, Subulites bohemicus, Subulites calciferus, Subulites canadensis, Subulites compactus, Subulites conradi, Subulites dixonenesis, Subulites ellisensis, Subulites elongatus, Subulites enormis, Subulites gigas, Subulites gloucesterensis, Subulites granum, Subulites inflata, Subulites lineolata, Subulites longior, Subulites microcochleus, Subulites nanus, Subulites parvus, Subulites pergracilis, Subulites priscus, Subulites prolongata, Subulites prolongatus, Subulites regularis, Subulites revalensis, Subulites richardsoni, Subulites stromboides, Subulites subelongatus, Subulites subula, Subulites terebriformis, Subulites thulensis, Subulites toernquisti

Type specimen: Its type locality is Soldier’s Home, 2.5 miles west of Dayton, which is in an Aeronian carbonate limestone in the Brassfield Formation of Ohio

Distribution: found only at Soldier’s Home, 2.5 miles west of Dayton

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