Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Alternative spelling: Worthenia (Yochelsonospira)
Full reference: M.L. Thein and M.H. Nitecki. 1974. Chesterian (Upper Mississippian) Gastropoda of the Illinois basin. Fieldiana: Geology, New Series 34:1-238
Parent taxon: Lophospiridae according to P. J. Wagner 2011
Sister taxa: Arjamannia, Biarmeaspira, Donaldiella, Ectomaria, Frodospira, Gyronematinae, Hanusispira, Kawanamia, Longstaffia, Lophospira, Lophospirinae, Loxoplocus, Manzanospira, Paupospira, Platyworthenia, Ptychozone, Ruedemannia, Ruedemanninae, Triredimiculum, Worthenia, Itimaspira
Subtaxa: Yochelsonospira gairensis, Yochelsonospira mississippiensis, Yochelsonospira nauvooensis, Yochelsonospira northviewensis, Yochelsonospira tenuilineata, Yochelsonospira thomasi
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder