Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Alternative combination: Saffordella tennesseensis

Synonyms: Aulopea nelsoni Dunbar 1920, Diaphorostoma quadrangulare Dunbar 1920, Distemnostoma curtum Dunbar 1920, Distemnostoma princeps Dunbar 1920, Holopea planidorsata Dunbar 1920, Visitator curtum Dunbar 1920, Visitator nelsoni Dunbar 1920, Visitator planidorsata Dunbar 1920, Visitator princeps Dunbar 1920, Visitator quadrangulare Dunbar 1920

Full reference: C.O. Dunbar. 1920. New species of Devonian fossils from western Tennessee. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 28(2):109-158

Belongs to Visitator according to J. B. Knight et al. 1960

See also Dunbar 1920, Knight 1941 and Wagner 2023

Sister taxa: Visitator cylindricum, Visitator extraneus

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal parasite

Distribution: found only at Rockhouse, on Horse Creek, 8 miles southeast of Savannah (Devonian of Tennessee)

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