Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Alternative spelling: Pleurotomaria (Phymatopleura)
Synonym: Orestes Girty 1912 [replaced name]
Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1939. Certain pleurotomariid gastropods from the Carboniferous of New Mexico and Texas. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 29(1):21-36
Parent taxon: Phymatopleuridae according to B. Karapunar and A. Nützel 2022
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Girty 1939, Knight et al. 1960, Reed 1944 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Altotomaria, Austroscalata, Borestus, Callitomaria, Catazona, Discotomaria, Eirlysia, Euryalox, Eymarella, Fetaspira, Juvenispira, Lamellospira, Paragoniozona, Perakella, Tapinotomaria, Termihabena, Trochotomaria, Vicnigoria, Worthenia
Subtaxa: Phymatopleura baccata Phymatopleura brazoensis Phymatopleura conica Phymatopleura girtyi Phymatopleura heteropleura Phymatopleura kattaensis Phymatopleura linkiana Phymatopleura missouriensis Phymatopleura nodosa Phymatopleura paraliensis Phymatopleura preclara Phymatopleura thyrrena Phymatopleura uchhaliensis Phymatopleura verneuili
Type: Orestes nodosus
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Germany (1 collection), Italy (1), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (11), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (3: Kansas, Texas)
• Carboniferous of United States (84: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Devonian of China (1)
Total: 114 collections including 119 occurrences
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