Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Alternative combination: Bellerophon troosti
Full reference: A. E. de Ferrusac and A. D. d'Orbigny. 1840. Histoire naturelle générale et particulière de céphalopodes acétabulifères vivants et fossiles 1-361
Belongs to Sphenosphaera according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Bassler 1909, Bassler 1932, de Ferrusac and d'Orbigny 1840, Foerste 1923, Grabau and Shimer 1909, Knight and Bridge 1944, Safford 1869, Ulrich and Scofield 1897, Wahlman 1992, Wilson 1948 and Wilson 1949
Sister taxa: Sphenosphaera bilineatus, Sphenosphaera burginensis, Sphenosphaera capax, Sphenosphaera centervillensis, Sphenosphaera consimilis, Sphenosphaera eiseni, Sphenosphaera fiscellostriata, Sphenosphaera kepinensis, Sphenosphaera laurentinus, Sphenosphaera mohri, Sphenosphaera nana, Sphenosphaera opertus, Sphenosphaera platystoma, Sphenosphaera recurvus, Sphenosphaera rogersensis, Sphenosphaera similis, Sphenosphaera subangularis, Sphenosphaera subpatula
Type specimen: USNM 45711, a shell
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (9: Kentucky, Tennessee collections)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
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