Lophonema perstriata Billings 1859

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Helicotomidae

Alternative combination: Helicotoma perstriata

Full reference: E. Billings. 1859. Fossils of the Calciferous Sandrock, including those of a deposit of white limestone at Mingan, supposed to belong to the formation. The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 4:345-367

Belongs to Lophonema according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Billings 1859, Twenhofel 1938 and Ulrich and Scofield 1897

Sister taxa: Lophonema abrupta, Lophonema calphurnia, Lophonema circumlirata, Lophonema costata, Lophonema frydai, Lophonema orientalia, Lophonema peccatonica, Lophonema taneyensis, Lophonema tricarinata, Lophonema wuhuensis

Distribution: found only at Mingan Island, Mingan Island Group (Ordovician of Quebec)

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