Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Alternative combinations: Pleurotomaria illinoiensis, Trepospira illinoiensis
Invalid subtaxa: Pleurotomaria depressa Cox 1857 [replaced name], Pleurotomaria kentuckiensis Miller 1889, Trepospira (Trepospira) minima Hoare 1961, Trepospira depressa Cox 1857 [replaced name]
Full reference: A. H. Worthen. 1884. Descriptions of two new species of Crustacea, fifty-one species of Mollusca, and three species of Crinoids, from the Carboniferous formations of Illinois and adjacent states. Bulletin of the Illinois State Museum of Natural History 2:1-27
Belongs to Trepospira according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Chronic 1953, Cox 1857, Elias 1958, Girty 1915, Hoare 1961, Karapunar and Nützel 2022, Kues 1984, Kues 1991, Kues 1996, Kues and Batten 2001, Kues et al. 2002, Mark 1912, Morningstar 1922, Sturgeon 1964, Sturgeon 1964, Worthen 1884, Worthen 1890 and Yochelson and Saunders 1967
Sister taxa: Pleurotomaria (Trepospira) chitralensis, Pleurotomaria (Trepospira) hunica, Trepospira (Trepospira), Trepospira discoidalis, Trepospira kentuckiensis, Trepospira sphaerulata
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Peru (1 collection), United States (111: Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas)
Total: 112 collections including 116 occurrences
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