Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae

Alternative combination: Protowarthia planodorsata

Full reference: E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081

Belongs to Sinuites according to G.P. Wahlman 1992

See also Bassler 1915, Ruedemann 1926 and Ulrich and Scofield 1897

Sister taxa: Sinuites (Sinuites), Sinuites ammonoides, Sinuites anceps, Sinuites angulatus, Sinuites angustus, Sinuites bilobatus, Sinuites cancellatus, Sinuites cordateformis, Sinuites corpulentus, Sinuites crypticus, Sinuites destombesi, Sinuites discoides, Sinuites globularis, Sinuites gracilis, Sinuites granistriatus, Sinuites hanusi, Sinuites hispanicus, Sinuites meignannensis, Sinuites minutus, Sinuites nanus, Sinuites naviculoides, Sinuites niger, Sinuites nitens, Sinuites obesa, Sinuites pervoluta, Sinuites pseudocompressus, Sinuites pusgillensis, Sinuites quadratus, Sinuites rectangularis, Sinuites reticulatus, Sinuites rotundata, Sinuites rugulosus, Sinuites semirugosus, Sinuites separatus, Sinuites soudleyensis, Sinuites sowerbyi, Sinuites subcompressa, Sinuites subrectangularis, Sinuites usitatus, Sinuites vetustus

Type specimen: Its type locality is River Quarries, Covington, Southgate Mbr., which is in an Edenian marine limestone/shale in the Kope Formation of Kentucky

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at River Quarries, Covington, Southgate Mbr.

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