Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Full reference: W. Wenz. 1938. Handbuch der Paläozoologie; Gastropoda. Handbuch der Paläozoologie 1-240
Parent taxon: Trochonematoidea according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Jeffery 2003, Knight et al. 1960, Kosnik 2002, Nützel et al. 2018 and Wagner 1999
Sister taxon: Trochonematidae
Subtaxa: Arjamannia Biarmeaspira Donaldiella Ectomaria Frodospira Gyronematinae Hanusispira Kawanamia Longstaffia Lophospira Lophospirinae Loxoplocus Manzanospira Paupospira Platyworthenia Ptychozone Ruedemannia Ruedemanniinae Ruedemanninae Triredimiculum Yiningicus Yochelsonospira
Type: Lophospira
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Madagascar (1 collection)
• Triassic of Italy (5)
• Permian of Australia (1), Cambodia (3), China (6), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (25), Thailand (2), United States (55: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah), Venezuela (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (2), China (1), Japan (1), Morocco (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (13: Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois, Nevada, Oklahoma)
• Givetian of France (2)
• Devonian of Australia (9), Canada (2: Manitoba, Quebec), China (1), the Czech Republic (11), Germany (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Poland (1), United States (5: California, New York, Ohio)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (16: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario), China (6), the Czech Republic (9), Estonia (1), Ireland (1), the Russian Federation (6), Sweden (18), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (15: California, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin)
• Dobrotivian of Spain (1)
• Uhaku of Estonia (2)
• Chazyan of Canada (6: Quebec), United States (25: New York, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia)
• Whiterockian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (14: California, Minnesota, Nevada, Virginia)
• Arenig of China (13), Greenland (1)
• Ordovician of Australia (15), Canada (101: British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (20), the Czech Republic (9), Estonia (27), Greenland (4), Malaysia (2), North Korea (3), Norway (6), the Russian Federation (7), South Korea (2), Spain (1), Sweden (7), the United Kingdom (38), United States (542: Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Canadian of Canada (1: Nunavut)
Total: 1093 collections including 1646 occurrences