Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae

Alternative combinations: Bellerophon perelegans, Bucanopsis perelegans

Full reference: C. A. White and R. P. Whitfield. 1862. Observations upon the rocks of the Mississippian Valley which have been referred to the Chemung Group of New York, together with descriptions of new species from the same horizon at Burlington, Iowa. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 8:289-306

Belongs to Retispira according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Hyde 1953, Thein and Nitecki 1974, Weller 1901 and White and Whitfield 1862

Sister taxa: Knightites (Retispira) hanzawai, Knightites (Retispira) striata, Knightites (Retispira) warthi, Retispira albapinensis, Retispira angustifasciata, Retispira asiatica, Retispira bellireticulata, Retispira bilabiatus, Retispira bimorpha, Retispira bittneri, Retispira boltoni, Retispira carinatus, Retispira chenmazijingensis, Retispira chernyshevi, Retispira christinae, Retispira cincta, Retispira clarkei, Retispira concinna, Retispira crucilirata, Retispira culleni, Retispira decussatus, Retispira deflectus, Retispira devonica, Retispira elegans, Retispira elevata, Retispira emerii, Retispira espinasa, Retispira exilis, Retispira fascireticulatus, Retispira fragilis, Retispira guizhouensis, Retispira hibernicus, Retispira hohenlimburgensis, Retispira integra, Retispira irwinensis, Retispira kansasensis, Retispira kattaensis, Retispira keyniana, Retispira khaophrikensis, Retispira leda, Retispira lyelli, Retispira makatikhae, Retispira marcouianus, Retispira matanensis, Retispira meekiana, Retispira modesta, Retispira monronensis, Retispira mowensis, Retispira multicancellata, Retispira multilirata, Retispira multiscalpta, Retispira navicula, Retispira ningxiaensis, Retispira nodocostata, Retispira nodulifera, Retispira nolani, Retispira ordinata, Retispira ornatissima, Retispira ornatus, Retispira otsego, Retispira patagoniensis, Retispira puchenpraensis, Retispira qingshuiheensis, Retispira qingshuihensis, Retispira repertus, Retispira reticulata, Retispira reticulatus, Retispira retifera, Retispira rumpfi, Retispira schwelmensis, Retispira sinensis, Retispira solignaci, Retispira strictocanalicula, Retispira strictura, Retispira subtilistriata, Retispira suhaensis, Retispira sullivani, Retispira tasselli, Retispira temnonema, Retispira tenuilineata, Retispira tenuilirata, Retispira texana, Retispira textiliformis, Retispira textilis, Retispira triangularis, Retispira tumidus, Retispira undata, Retispira waverliensis, Retispira yochelsoni

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Wassonville Fm., southeastern Iowa (Carboniferous of Iowa)

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