Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Raphistomatidae
Full reference: E. O. Ulrich. 1911. Revision of the Paleozoic systems. Geological Society of America Bulletin 22:281-680
Belongs to Ceratopea according to J. B. Knight 1941
See also Ulrich 1911
Sister taxa: Ceratopea ankylosa, Ceratopea billingsi, Ceratopea buttsi, Ceratopea canadensis, Ceratopea capuliformis, Ceratopea compressum, Ceratopea depressa, Ceratopea grandis, Ceratopea hami, Ceratopea harpya, Ceratopea inflata, Ceratopea kawasakii, Ceratopea latiumbilicata, Ceratopea laurentina, Ceratopea lemonei, Ceratopea lenticularis, Ceratopea medfraensis, Ceratopea miser, Ceratopea numeria, Ceratopea obtusa, Ceratopea parvum, Ceratopea pygmaea, Ceratopea sculpta, Ceratopea sinclairensis, Ceratopea subconica, Ceratopea tennesseensis, Ceratopea unguis, Ceratopea vagrans, Ceratopea wisei
Type specimen: USNM 56632, an other (operculum). Its type locality is Wytheville, which is in a Cassinian marine horizon in the Beekmantown Formation of Virginia.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Wytheville
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