Lophospiridae
Classification
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Murchisoniina
Family: Lophospiridae (Wenz, 1938)
Cincinnatian Genera: Lophospira, Paupospira
Geologic Range
Ordovician – Middle Triassic
Common Paleoecology
Lophospiridae is an extinct family of facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeders
Description of the Family
- Shell with labral sinus
- Sinus culminates in median angulation
- Selenizone/pseudoselenizone is convex
- Variable shell form
- Whorls may be disjunct in later growth stages or throughout
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Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I (1960):
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I (1960):
- Shell with median labral sinus that generally culminates in a median angulation, and commonly with angulations both above and below; selenizone or pseudoselenizone convex; form of shell variable, whorls may be disjunct in late growth stages or throughout.
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Lophospira
Paupospira
