Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
Full reference: E.N.K. Clarkson, D.A.T. Harper, and J.S. Peel. 1995. Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the mollusc Pterotheca from the Ordovician and Silurian of Scotland. Lethaia 28(1):101-114
Belongs to Pterotheca according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Clarkson et al. 1995 and Ebbestad and Gutiérrez-Marco 2017
Sister taxa: Pterotheca anatiformis, Pterotheca angusta, Pterotheca anticostiana, Pterotheca attenuata, Pterotheca avirostris, Pterotheca clochensis, Pterotheca consorbina, Pterotheca drummuckensis, Pterotheca estona, Pterotheca expansa, Pterotheca gath, Pterotheca girvanensis, Pterotheca harviei, Pterotheca hispanica, Pterotheca intermedia, Pterotheca lata, Pterotheca macroderma, Pterotheca maxima, Pterotheca mullochensis, Pterotheca multidecorata, Pterotheca pentagona, Pterotheca saffordi, Pterotheca simplex, Pterotheca transversa, Pterotheca triangularis, Pterotheca undulata, Pterotheca xiushanensis, Pterotheca yongshunensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is North Esk River, Pentland Hills, SW Edinburgh, which is in a Telychian marine mudstone/siltstone in the Wether Law Linn Formation of the United Kingdom
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at North Esk River, Pentland Hills, SW Edinburgh
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.