Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 75876

Full reference: F. R. Cowper Reed. 1909. Lower Palaeozoic Hyolithidae from Girvan. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 47:203-222

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 estona, Pterotheca expansa, Pterotheca gath, Pterotheca girvanensis, Pterotheca harviei, Pterotheca hispanica, Pterotheca intermedia, Pterotheca lata, Pterotheca macroderma, Pterotheca maxima, Pterotheca mullochensis, Pterotheca pentagona, Pterotheca saffordi, Pterotheca simplex, Pterotheca transversa, Pterotheca triangularis, Pterotheca trimerelloides, Pterotheca undulata

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore