Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Synonym: Frillbeastia Cook and Camilleri 1997
Full reference: R. B. Blodgett and D. M. Rohr. 1989. Two new Devonian spine-bearing pleurotomariacean gastropod genera from Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 63(1):47-52
Parent taxon: Gosseletininae according to P. J. Wagner 2011
Sister taxa: Angyomphalus, Arizonella, Breizospira, Callistadia, Calvibembexia, Campbellospira, Champernownia, Deseretospirides, Devonorhineoderma, Dictyobembix, Dictyotomaria, Ehlersina, Eoangyomphalus, Fridolinata, Genuspira, Glabrocingulides, Glyptotomaria, Gosseletina, Guizhouspira, Lentipleura, Paffratholoron, Platyloron, Pragoloron, Ptychomphalides, Rufilla, Spiroraphe, Spirovallum, Stenoloron, Umbotropis, Westralospira, Whidbornia, Zlichomphalina
Subtaxa: Chlupacispira spinosa, Frillbeastia queenslandicus
Type: Chlupacispira spinosa
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder