Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Alternative spelling: Pleurotomaria (Bembexia)
Synonym: Kersadiella Blodgett et al. 1999
Full reference: D. Oehlert and P. Oehlert. 1888. Descriptions de quelques espèces dévoniennes de département de la Mayenne. Bulletin de la Société d'Etudes Scientifiques d'Angers 1888:65-120
Parent taxon: Eotomariinae according to R. B. Blodgett et al. 1999
See also Knight et al. 1960, Perner 1907, Sepkoski 2002, Ulrich and Scofield 1897 and Wagner 2023
Sister taxa: Clathrospira, Eocryptaenia, Eotomaria, Eotomariides, Euconospira, Palaeoschisma, Ptychomphalinides, Ptychonema, Spiroscala, Spirotomaria
Subtaxa: Bembexia adjutor Bembexia babini Bembexia chapernowni Bembexia crenatostriata Bembexia disjuncta Bembexia gradilispira Bembexia headillus Bembexia insolita Bembexia inumbilicata Bembexia laevis Bembexia larteti Bembexia micula Bembexia minima Bembexia neapolitana Bembexia seminuda Bembexia tricinctus
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (12: Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, Tennessee, Texas collections)
• Givetian of France (1), United States (1: New York)
• Devonian of Australia (1), China (1), France (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (33: Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania), Venezuela (2)
• Silurian of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 56 collections including 60 occurrences
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