Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Alternative combination: Pileopsis prisca spinosa
Full reference: G. A. Goldfuss. 1844. Divisio quinta. Molluscorum gasteropodum reliquiae. Petrefacta Germaniae et ea, quae in Museuo Universitatis Regiae, Borussicae Frederischiae Wilhelmiae Rhenanae servantur et alia quacungue in Museis Hueninghausiano, Muensteriano aliisque exstant, iconibus et descriptionnibus illustrata 3(5):1-120
Belongs to Spinyplatyceras according to R. B. Blodgett and J. Fręda 1999
Sister taxa: Spinyplatyceras arkonense, Spinyplatyceras bartlettense, Spinyplatyceras dumosiforme, Spinyplatyceras dumosum, Spinyplatyceras erinacum, Spinyplatyceras milleri, Spinyplatyceras multispinosum, Spinyplatyceras parvispinum, Spinyplatyceras paxiller, Spinyplatyceras pugnus, Spinyplatyceras tylotus
Ecology: passively mobile epifaunal coprophage