Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1945. Some new genera of the Bellerophontacea. Journal of Paleontology 19:333-340
Parent taxon: Bucanopsinae according to G.P. Wahlman 1992
See also Knight et al. 1960 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Bucanopsis
Subtaxa: Sphenosphaera bilineatus Sphenosphaera burginensis Sphenosphaera capax Sphenosphaera centervillensis Sphenosphaera consimilis Sphenosphaera eiseni Sphenosphaera fiscellostriata Sphenosphaera kepinensis Sphenosphaera laurentinus Sphenosphaera mohri Sphenosphaera nana Sphenosphaera opertus Sphenosphaera platystoma Sphenosphaera recurvus Sphenosphaera rogersensis Sphenosphaera similis Sphenosphaera subangularis Sphenosphaera subpatula Sphenosphaera troosti
Type: Bellerophon clausus
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (3: Ontario collections), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: New York, Ohio)
• Ordovician of Canada (8: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), United States (73: Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee)
Total: 92 collections including 110 occurrences
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