Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Full reference: J. Fręda. 2000. Some new Givetian (Late Middle Devonian) gastropods from the Paffrath area (Bergisches Land, Germany). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45(2):359-374
Parent taxon: Platyceratidae according to P. J. Wagner 2011
Sister taxa: Barynema, Basiplanus, Brokenriveria, Cancellator, Cancelloplatyceras, Compsonema, Crossoceras, Cyclonema, Devononema, Euthyrhachis, Himantonia, Lotzia, Naticellina, Naticonema, Naticonoda, Natirhenia, Nonorios, Obscuropsis, Palaeocapulus, Platyceras, Platyschisma, Praenatica, Pseudorthonychiinae, Ptychospirina, Rhabdocantha, Spinyplatyceras, Spiranodus, Spironemella, Strophostylus, Tachloconcha, Turbonellininae
Subtaxa: Paffrathia aarica, Paffrathia lotzi
Ecology: passively mobile epifaunal coprophage