Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Alternative spelling: Lophospira (Ruedemannia)
Invalid subtaxa: Commozonospira Qiao 1983, Coronilla Perner 1907 [replaced name], Pleurotomaria (Coronilla) Perner 1907 [replaced name]
Full reference: A. F. Foerste. 1914. Notes on Agelacrinidae and Lepadocystinae, with descriptions of Thresherodiscus and Brockocystites. Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University 17(3):399-487
Parent taxon: Lophospiridae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Foerste 1923, Karapunar and Nützel 2022, Knight 1941, Knight et al. 1960, Perner 1907, Sepkoski 2002 and Wagner 1999
Sister taxa: Arjamannia, Biarmeaspira, Donaldiella, Ectomaria, Frodospira, Gyronematinae, Hanusispira, Kawanamia, Longstaffia, Lophospira, Lophospirinae, Loxoplocus, Manzanospira, Paupospira, Platyworthenia, Ptychozone, Ruedemanniinae, Ruedemanninae, Triredimiculum, Yiningicus, Yochelsonospira
Subtaxa: Ruedemannia aberrans Ruedemannia bembexiformis Ruedemannia borkholmiensis Ruedemannia cognata Ruedemannia crassior Ruedemannia fristschi Ruedemannia holmi Ruedemannia humilis Ruedemannia instabilis Ruedemannia laevissima Ruedemannia lirata Ruedemannia robusta Ruedemannia sodalis Ruedemannia striatula Ruedemannia subrobusta Ruedemannia tolli Ruedemannia trilix
Type: Lophospira lirata
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (2 collections)
• Devonian of United States (4: New York, Ohio)
• Silurian of China (1), the Czech Republic (3), Ireland (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: California, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of Canada (3: Ontario), China (1), Estonia (4), Norway (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Virginia, Wisconsin)
Total: 35 collections including 41 occurrences
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