†family Plethospiridae Wenz 1938 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Plethospiridae

Parent taxon: Murchisonioidea according to A. Nützel et al. 2018

See also Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Knight et al. 1960, Ponder and Warén 1988 and Rohr and Blodgett 2001

Sister taxa: Cheeneetnukiidae, Hormotomidae, Kosovoconcha, Mendelia, Murchisoniidae

Subtaxa: Kirkospira Moenaspira Plethospirinae Wortheniopsis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (1 collection), Hungary (1), Italy (22), Romania (2)

• Permian of United States (1: Texas)

• Silurian of Canada (3: Ontario), United States (3: Alaska)

Total: 33 collections including 45 occurrences

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