Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Alternative combination: Lophospira (Donaldiella) decursa
Full reference: E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081
Belongs to Lophospira according to P. J. Wagner 1995
See also Cressman 1973 and Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Sister taxa: Lophospira abnormis, Lophospira alata, Lophospira alternans, Lophospira angulata, Lophospira bilirata, Lophospira billingsi, Lophospira calcifera, Lophospira concurrens, Lophospira conoidea, Lophospira depauperata, Lophospira dubia, Lophospira ferruginea, Lophospira gumbinense, Lophospira gyrogonia, Lophospira infausta, Lophospira infirma, Lophospira jaekeli, Lophospira kinosakii, Lophospira kuckersiana, Lophospira lyckholmiensis, Lophospira major, Lophospira manitoulinensis, Lophospira mickwitzi, Lophospira milleri, Lophospira modesta, Lophospira obliqua, Lophospira ozakii, Lophospira pagoda, Lophospira perangulata, Lophospira producta, Lophospira rectistriata, Lophospira sandbiana, Lophospira selecta, Lophospira serrulata, Lophospira shallockensis, Lophospira spironema, Lophospira subalata, Lophospira subglobosa, Lophospira superba, Lophospira terrassa, Lophospira tesakovi, Lophospira trispiralis, Lophospira variablis, Lophospira ventricosa
Ecology: epifaunal herbivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (10: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota collections)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
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