Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Alternative spelling: Bellerophon (Warthia)
Synonym: Stachella Waagen 1880
Full reference: W. H. Waagen. 1880. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part II. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(2):73-183
Parent taxon: Euphemitinae according to C. Ketwetsuriya et al. 2020
See also Foster et al. 2017, Horný 1963, Knight et al. 1960, Mazaev 2015, Nützel and Ketwetsuriya 2016, Popov 1957, Sepkoski 2002, Ulrich and Scofield 1897 and Yochelson and Yin 1985
Sister taxa: Euphemites, Euphemitopsis
Subtaxa: Stachella bicarinata Stachella micra Stachella pseudohelix Warthia americana Warthia angustior Warthia attalicus Warthia borealis Warthia brevisinuata Warthia brevizonata Warthia carinata Warthia crassus Warthia fissus Warthia hisakatsui Warthia huayingshanensis Warthia imtatschanensis Warthia inflata Warthia intermedia Warthia kingi Warthia lata Warthia micromphala Warthia peregrinus Warthia perspecta Warthia polita Warthia saundersi Warthia semiaurita Warthia stricta Warthia vaceki Warthia waageni Warthia welleri Warthia zakharovi
Type: Warthia brevisinuata
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Australia (2 collections), China (5), Greenland (15), India (1), Italy (7), Norway (1), Pakistan (9), the Russian Federation (8), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5)
• Permian of Australia (28), China (6), India (1), Italy (18), Japan (6), Mexico (5), New Zealand (9), Pakistan (18), the Russian Federation (5), Thailand (6), United States (31: Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous to Permian of China (1)
• Carboniferous of United States (3: Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico)
Total: 190 collections including 208 occurrences
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