Genus

Lophospira Whitfield, 1886

Taxon description

Type species. By subsequent designation of Oehlert (1888, p. 23), Murchisonia bicincta Hall, 1847, now considered a junior synonym of Murchisonia milleri Miller, 1877. Upper Ordovician (Katian Stage) Trenton Limestone at Waterstown, New York State, USA. (In Ebbestad et al., 2019)

Selection of related publications

Saladžius, V. J. 1966. Mollusk fauna of the Silurian deposits of the south of the East Baltic territory. Palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Baltic and the Byelorussia. Number I (VI), pp. 31-73. Mintis.

Öpik, A. 1930. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Kukruse-(C2-C3-)Stufe in Eesti. IV. Tartu Ülikooli Geoloogia Instituudi Toimetused 24, 1-34.

Koken, E., Perner, J. 1925. Die Gastropoden des baltischen Untersilurs. Zapiski Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk 37, 1, 1-318.

List of species

1. Lophospira esthona (Koken et Perner, 1925)

2. Lophospira gumbiense Saladzhius, 1966 | Ludlow

3. Lophospira kuckersiana (Teichert, 1932) | Kukruse Stage

4. Lophospira lyckholmiensis (Teichert, 1932) | Nabala Stage→Pirgu Stage

5. Lophospira mickwitzi (Koken, 1896)

6. Lophospira milleri Miller, 1877 | Kunda Stage→Lasnamägi Stage

7. Lophospira prisca Koken, 1925 | Haljala Stage

8. Lophospira raudi Öpik, 1930 | Kukruse Stage

9. Lophospira sandbiana Ebbestad, Högström et Frisk, 2013 | Uhaku Stage

10. Lophospira subalata (Koken et Perner, 1925) | Kukruse Stage→Keila Stage

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Subclass	Orthogastropoda
Order	Murchisoniina
Superfamily	Trochonematoidea
Family	Lophospiridae
Subfamily	Lophospirinae
Genus	Lophospira
Species	bicincta
	esthona
	gumbiense
	kuckersiana
	lyckholmiensis
	mickwitzi
	milleri
	prisca
	raudi
	sandbiana
	subalata
Genus	Loxoplocus
	Paupospira
	Proturritella
	Ruedemannia
	Worthenia