Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1956. New families of Gastropoda. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2):41-42
Parent taxon: Lophospiridae according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2005 and Knight et al. 1960
Sister taxa: Arjamannia, Biarmeaspira, Donaldiella, Ectomaria, Frodospira, Hanusispira, Kawanamia, Longstaffia, Lophospira, Lophospirinae, Loxoplocus, Manzanospira, Paupospira, Platyworthenia, Ptychozone, Ruedemannia, Ruedemanniinae, Ruedemanninae, Triredimiculum, Yiningicus, Yochelsonospira
Subtaxa: Eunema Gyronema Klavlia
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Italy (5 collections)
• Permian of the Russian Federation (2)
• Carboniferous of China (1)
• Devonian of Australia (1), Canada (1: Manitoba), China (1), Germany (2)
• Silurian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (1), Czechia (1), Estonia (1), United States (5: California, Wisconsin)
• Chazyan of United States (1: New York)
• Ordovician of Canada (11: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (81: Alaska, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin)
Total: 119 collections including 173 occurrences