Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Alternative combination: Lophospira woodlandi
Full reference: J. D. Longstaff. 1924. Descriptions of Gasteropoda, chiefly in Mrs. Robert Gray's collection, from the Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Girvan. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 80(4):408-446
Belongs to Arjamannia according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Longstaff 1924, Peel 1975, Peel 1977, Pitcher 1939 and Wagner 1999
Sister taxa: Arjamannia aulangonensis, Arjamannia bellicarinata, Arjamannia cancellatula, Arjamannia inexpectans, Arjamannia pteronoides, Arjamannia sybellina, Arjamannia thraivensis, Arjamannia turrita
Type specimen: G. 25388, a shell. Its type locality is Locality 7: Woodland Point, 430 meters west of Woodland farm (section only exposed at low-tide), which is in a Rhuddanian marine limestone in the Saugh Hill Grits Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (1: Nova Scotia collection), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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