Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Alternative spellings: Baylea (Trepospira), Pleurotomaria (Trepospira)
Full reference: E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081
Parent taxon: Gosseletininae according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Elias 1958, Karapunar and Nützel 2022, Knight et al. 1960, Reed 1944, Sepkoski 2002 and Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Sister taxa: Ambozone, Angyomphalus, Arizonella, Breizospira, Callistadia, Calvibembexia, Campbellospira, Champernownia, Chlupacispira, Deseretospirides, Devonorhineoderma, Dictyobembix, Dictyotomaria, Ehlersina, Eoangyomphalus, Fridolinata, Genuspira, Glabrocingulides, Globodoma, Glyptotomaria, Gosseletina, Guizhouspira, Kozelconcha, Lentipleura, Naticasinus, Nemaspira, Paffratholoron, Platyloron, Pragoloron, Ptychomphalides, Spiroraphe, Spirovallum, Stenoloron, Umbotropis, Westralospira, Whidbornia, Zlichomphalina
Subtaxa: Pleurotomaria (Trepospira) chitralensis Pleurotomaria (Trepospira) hunica Trepospira (Trepospira) Trepospira discoidalis Trepospira illinoisensis Trepospira kentuckiensis Trepospira sphaerulata
Type: Pleurotomaria sphaerulata
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Permian of India (1 collection), Pakistan (5)
• Carboniferous of Peru (2), United States (142: Alaska, California, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas)
• Silurian of China (1)
Total: 151 collections including 158 occurrences
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