Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 75872

Full reference: C. Teichert. 1928. Die silurische Familie Pterothecidae Walcott, nov. emend. (Gastropoden, Heteropoden?). Senckenbergiana 10(3-4):136-157

Belongs to Pterotheca according to P. J. Wagner 2020

Sister taxa: Pterotheca anatiformis, Pterotheca angusta, Pterotheca anticostiana, Pterotheca attenuata, Pterotheca avirostris, Pterotheca clochensis, Pterotheca consorbina, Pterotheca drummuckensis, Pterotheca expansa, Pterotheca gath, Pterotheca girvanensis, Pterotheca harviei, Pterotheca hispanica, Pterotheca intermedia, Pterotheca lata, Pterotheca macroderma, Pterotheca maxima, Pterotheca mullochensis, Pterotheca multidecorata, Pterotheca pentagona, Pterotheca saffordi, Pterotheca simplex, Pterotheca transversa, Pterotheca triangularis, Pterotheca trimerelloides, Pterotheca undulata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Küti (Kurküll), Kõrgessaare Fm., which is in a Vormsi carbonate limestone in the Lyckholm Formation of Estonia

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore