Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1851. On some new Silurian Mollusca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology 77:45-63
Parent taxon: Bellerophontidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Knight et al. 1960, Nützel and Ketwetsuriya 2016 and Wahlman 1992
Sister taxa: Bucanopsinae, Cymbulariinae, Dicellonema, Knightitinae, Sorobanobaca, Teutonophon, Yochelsonellisa
Subtaxa: Aglaoglypta Bellerophon Bubovicus Khumerspira Kodymites Liljevallospira Mogulia Pharkidonotus Praematuratropis Ptychobellerophon Semilukispira Sphaerocyclus Waagenella
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (2 collections), Greenland (2), India (1), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Wyoming)
• Permian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (9), Cambodia (7), China (26), Croatia (2), India (8), Indonesia (7), Iran (5), Italy (4), Japan (6), Laos (1), Madagascar (2), Malaysia (2), Mexico (6), Pakistan (141), the Russian Federation (12), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Thailand (5), Tunisia (5), United States (121: Alaska, Arizona, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
• Chokierian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Bolivia (1), China (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Australia (6), Belgium (4), Canada (1: Alberta), China (1), Egypt (1), Ireland (2), Peru (3), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (192: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Givetian of United States (1: New York)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian of Australia (10), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Canada (11: Manitoba, Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic (5), France (2), Germany (17), Japan (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (3), the United Kingdom (9), United States (36: Alaska, Arizona, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania)
• Silurian of Canada (2: Ontario), the Czech Republic (8), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Indiana, New York, Tennessee)
• Ordovician of Canada (2: Quebec), Estonia (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Iowa, Tennessee)
Total: 742 collections including 1044 occurrences