Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Alternative combination: Bellerophon panneus
Full reference: C. A. White. 1862. Description of new species of fossils from the Devonian and Carboniferous rocks of the Mississippi Valley. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 9:8-33
Belongs to Bellerophon (Bellerophon) according to E. L. Yochelson and B.W. Saunders 1967
See also Rollins 1975, Weller 1900, Weller 1901 and White 1862
Sister taxa: Bellerophon (Bellerophon) blanfordianus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) complanatus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) cristatus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) equivicalus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) hilli, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) huecoensis, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) kingorum, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) kitakamiensis, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) lamellosus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) majusculus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) mongoliensis, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) needlensis, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) orientalis, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) oteroensis, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) parvicristus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) planodorsatum, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) stevensianus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) vinculatus, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) welshi, Bellerophon (Bellerophon) yochelsoni
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Prospect Hill, bluff above river south of Burlington (Devonian of Iowa)
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