Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Alternative spellings: Loxoplocus (Lophospira), Pleurotomaria (Lophospira)
Invalid subtaxa: Cyclora depauperata Hall and Whitney 1862 [nomen vanum], Lophospira angulata Murchison 1839 [nomen vanum], Lophospira depauperata Hall and Whitney 1862 [nomen vanum], Loxoplocus (Lophospira) depauperata Hall and Whitney 1862 [nomen vanum], Pleurotomaria (Lophospira) depauperata Hall and Whitney 1862 [nomen vanum], Pleurotomaria angulata Murchison 1839 [nomen vanum], Pleurotomaria depauperata Hall and Whitney 1862 [nomen vanum]
Full reference: R. P. Whitfield. 1886. Notice of geological investigations along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, conducted by Prof. H.J. Seely and Pres. Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury College, with descriptions of the new fossils discovered. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 1(8):24-35
Parent taxon: Lophospiridae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Arjamannia, Biarmeaspira, Donaldiella, Ectomaria, Frodospira, Gyronematinae, Hanusispira, Kawanamia, Longstaffia, Lophospirinae, Loxoplocus, Manzanospira, Paupospira, Platyworthenia, Ptychozone, Ruedemannia, Ruedemanninae, Triredimiculum, Worthenia, Yochelsonospira, Itimaspira
Subtaxa: Lophospira abnormis, Lophospira alata, Lophospira alternans, Lophospira angulata, Lophospira bilirata, Lophospira billingsi, Lophospira borealis, Lophospira calcifera, Lophospira concurrens, Lophospira conoidea, Lophospira decursa, Lophospira dubia, Lophospira ferruginea, Lophospira gumbinense, Lophospira gyrogonia, Lophospira infausta, Lophospira infirma, Lophospira jaekeli, Lophospira kinosakii, Lophospira konnoi, Lophospira kuckersiana, Lophospira lyckholmiensis, Lophospira major, Lophospira mickwitzi, Lophospira milleri, Lophospira modesta, Lophospira obliqua, Lophospira ozakii, Lophospira pagoda, Lophospira perangulata, Lophospira producta, Lophospira rectistriata, Lophospira sandbiana, Lophospira selecta, Lophospira serrulata, Lophospira shallockensis, Lophospira spironema, Lophospira subalata, Lophospira subglobosa, Lophospira superba, Lophospira terrassa, Lophospira tesakovi, Lophospira trispiralis, Lophospira variablis, Lophospira ventricosa
Type: Murchisonia milleri
Ecology: epifaunal herbivore