Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Synonyms: Eoworthenia Frýda 1998, Kiviasukkaan Peel 1975
Full reference: P. Fischer. 1885. Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique, ou histoire naturelle des molluscques vivants et fossiles. Fasc. VIII 1-1369
Parent taxon: Lophospiridae according to P. J. Wagner 1999
See also Frýda 1998, Knight et al. 1960, Sepkoski 2002, Wagner 2023 and Yochelson 1977
Sister taxa: Arjamannia, Biarmeaspira, Donaldiella, Ectomaria, Frodospira, Gyronematinae, Hanusispira, Kawanamia, Longstaffia, Lophospira, Lophospirinae, Manzanospira, Paupospira, Platyworthenia, Ptychozone, Ruedemannia, Ruedemanniinae, Ruedemanninae, Triredimiculum, Yiningicus, Yochelsonospira
Subtaxa: Loxoplocus gothlandicus Loxoplocus hyacinthensis Loxoplocus nelsonae Loxoplocus sedgwicki Loxoplocus silurica Loxoplocus soluta Loxoplocus vermetus
Type: Murchisonia tropidophora
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (7: Nova Scotia, Ontario collections), China (1), the Czech Republic (4), the Russian Federation (5), Sweden (8), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: New York, Ohio, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of Canada (3: Northwest Territories, Québec), Estonia (10), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (5), United States (33: Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia)
Total: 86 collections including 92 occurrences
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