Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1956. New families of Gastropoda. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2):41-42
Parent taxon: Eotomariidae according to B. Karapunar and A. Nützel 2022
See also Knight et al. 1960, Rohr 1980 and Wagner 1999
Sister taxa: Ambozoniinae, Eotomariinae, Kamupena, Paraliospira, Semizona, Takfaia, Turritoma
Subtaxa: Denayella Liospira Pseudocryptaenia Pseudocryptaulina
Type: Liospira
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (4 collections), the Czech Republic (1), Poland (1), United States (26: Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio)
• Silurian of Canada (7: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), Greenland (4), the United Kingdom (15), United States (4: Ohio)
• Uhaku of Estonia (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Quebec)
• Arenig of China (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (60: British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (3), Estonia (12), Greenland (1), North Korea (2), Norway (3), South Korea (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (158: Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin)
Total: 314 collections including 402 occurrences