Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Full reference: P. J. Wagner. 1999. The utility of fossil data in phylogenetic analyses: a likelihood example using Ordovician-Silurian species of the Lophospiridae (Gastropoda: Murchisoniina). American Malacological Bulletin 15(1):1-31
Parent taxon: Lophospiridae according to P. J. Wagner 1999
See also Kosnik 2002
Sister taxa: Arjamannia, Biarmeaspira, Donaldiella, Ectomaria, Frodospira, Gyronematinae, Hanusispira, Kawanamia, Longstaffia, Lophospira, Lophospirinae, Loxoplocus, Manzanospira, Platyworthenia, Ptychozone, Ruedemannia, Ruedemanniinae, Ruedemanninae, Triredimiculum, Yiningicus, Yochelsonospira
Subtaxa: Paupospira akpatokensis Paupospira beatrice Paupospira bowdeni Paupospira burginensis Paupospira circe Paupospira elevata Paupospira manitouliensis Paupospira moorei Paupospira oweni Paupospira soluta Paupospira sumnerensis Paupospira tenuistriata Paupospira thebesensis Paupospira trilineata Paupospira tropidophora Paupospira varians Paupospira viator
Type: Lophospira oweni
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of the United Kingdom (1 collection), United States (2: Ohio)
• Ordovician of Canada (36: Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), the Czech Republic (5), Estonia (1), United States (110: Alaska, California, Georgia, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 155 collections including 204 occurrences
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