Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
Synonyms: Aulacomerella Huene 1900, Clioderma Hall 1861
Full reference: J. W. Salter. 1853. On a few genera of Irish Silurian fossils. Report of the 22nd meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1852:59-61
Parent taxon: Pterothecinae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Knight et al. 1960, Sepkoski 2002, Ulrich and Scofield 1897 and Wahlman 1992
Sister taxon: Cyclotheca
Subtaxa: Pterotheca anatiformis Pterotheca angusta Pterotheca anticostiana Pterotheca attenuata Pterotheca avirostris Pterotheca clochensis Pterotheca consorbina Pterotheca drummuckensis Pterotheca estona Pterotheca expansa Pterotheca gath Pterotheca girvanensis Pterotheca harviei Pterotheca hispanica Pterotheca intermedia Pterotheca lata Pterotheca macroderma Pterotheca maxima Pterotheca mullochensis Pterotheca multidecorata Pterotheca pentagona Pterotheca saffordi Pterotheca simplex Pterotheca transversa Pterotheca triangularis Pterotheca trimerelloides Pterotheca undulata
Type: Atrypa transversa
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Spain (1 collection), the United Kingdom (9)
• Ordovician of Canada (16: Ontario, Quebec), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (3), the United Kingdom (6), United States (20: Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Tennessee)
Total: 56 collections including 60 occurrences
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