Gastropoda - Pleurotomariida - Phymatopleuridae
Full reference: R. L. Batten. 1956. Some new pleurotomarian gastropods from the Permian of west Texas. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(1):42-44
Parent taxon: Pleurotomarioidea according to A. Nützel et al. 2018
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975 and Knight et al. 1960
Sister taxa: Catantostomatidae, Kittlidiscidae, Lancedelliidae, Pleurotomariidae, Polytremariidae, Portlockiellidae, Raphistomella, Rhaphischismatidae, Stuorellidae, Transylvanella, Trochotomidae, Zygitidae
Subtaxa: Austroscalata Baylea Borestus Callitomaria Catazona Discotomaria Eirlysia Euryalox Eymarella Fetaspira Juvenispira Lamellospira Paragoniozona Perakella Phymatopleura Termihabena Trochotomaria
Type: Phymatopleura
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (2 collections), Italy (1)
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (4), Hungary (1), Romania (1), United States (1: Idaho)
• Permian of Argentina (1), Australia (6), China (11), Greece (1), Iran (1), Italy (2), Japan (1), Malaysia (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (26), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (32), Thailand (2), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (35: Arizona, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
• Virgilian of United States (7: Maryland, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Desmoinesian of United States (29: Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas)
• Atokan of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Westphalian of United States (1: Kentucky)
• Chesterian of United States (2: Illinois)
• Osagean of United States (1: Arizona)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (2), Australia (9), Ireland (2), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (2), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (9), United States (39: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, New mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Australia (4), China (1), Germany (1)
Total: 261 collections including 409 occurrences