Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Alternative combinations: Bellerophon montfortianum, Bellerophon montfortianus, Bucanopsis montfortiana, Knightites (Cymatospira) montfortianum, Knightites (Cymatospira) montfortianus, Patellostium montfortanum, Patellostium montfortianum
Full reference: J. G. Norwood and H. Pratten. 1855. Notice of fossils from the Carboniferous Series of the western states belonging to the genera Spirifer, Bellerophon, Pleurotomaria, Macrocheilus, Natica, and Loxonema, with descriptions of eight new characteristc species. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3:71-77
Belongs to Cymatospira according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Girty 1915, Hoare et al. 1997, Knight 1942, Kues 1984, Kues 1985, Kues and Batten 2001, Kues et al. 2002, Mark 1912, Morningstar 1922, Norwood and Pratten 1855, Raymond 1911, Sturgeon 1937, Sturgeon 1964, Ulrich and Scofield 1897, White 1891 and Yochelson and Saunders 1967
Sister taxa: Cymatospira alternodosa, Cymatospira welleri
Subtaxa: Knightites (Cymatospira) montfortianus discordis
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (1: Texas collection)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), United States (67: Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah)
Total: 69 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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