Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Full reference: M. Gordon and E. L. Yochelson. 1987. Late Mississippian gastropods of the Chainman Shale, West-Central Utah. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1368:1-112
Parent taxon: Murchisoniidae according to A. V. Mazaev 2019
See also Gordon and Yochelson 1987 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anarconcha, Barroisocaulus, Biangularia, Brilonella, Cyrtostropha, Devonocerithioides, Domiporta, Eohormotomina, Farewellia, Glyphodeta, Helicospira, Kaseiella, Leptorima, Lodanaria, Mesocoelia, Michelia, Micheliopsis, Micrentoma, Morania, Murchisonia, Parahormotomina, Predazzella, Protospira, Pseudoaclisina, Vladanella, Wuxuanella
Subtaxa: Bellazona acuta Bellazona bella Bellazona polita
Type: Loxonema bella
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
• Desmoinesian of United States (1: New Mexico)
• Chesterian of United States (2: Utah)
• Carboniferous of United States (4: Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
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