Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Subulitidae
Alternative combination: Subulites inflatus
Full reference: F. B. Meek and A. H. Worthen. 1870. Descriptions of new species and genera of fossils from the Palaeozoic rocks of the western states. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 22:22-56
Belongs to Fusispira according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Meek and Worthen 1870, Meek and Worthen 1875, Schuchert 1900 and Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Sister taxa: Fusispira angusta, Fusispira bullatus, Fusispira convexa, Fusispira daphne, Fusispira elongata, Fusispira gigantea, Fusispira intermedia, Fusispira nobilis, Fusispira obesus, Fusispira ovalis, Fusispira planulata, Fusispira psyche, Fusispira schucherti, Fusispira spicula, Fusispira subbrevis, Fusispira subfusiformis, Fusispira sulcata, Fusispira terebriformis, Fusispira tsuchidai, Fusispira ventricosa, Fusispira vittata
Subtaxa: Fusispira inflata nepeana
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Nunavut collection), Greenland (1), United States (13: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
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