Gastropoda - Pleurotomarioidea - Phymatopleuridae
PaleoDB taxon number: 8612
Synonym: Platypleurotomaria Wanner 1942 (taxon 167046)
Full reference: E. G. Thomas. 1940. Revision of the Scottish Carboniferous Pleurotomariidae. Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow 20:30-72
Parent taxon: Phymatopleuridae according to J. B. Knight et al. 1960
Sister taxa: Austroscalata, Callitomaria, Catazona, Discotomaria, Eirlysia, Euryalox, Eymarella, Fetaspira, Juvenispira, Lamellospira, Paragoniozona, Phymatopleura, Sokella, Trochotomaria
Subtaxa: Borestus costatus, Borestus granihumerosus, Borestus heterospira, Borestus lunatus, Borestus magdalenensis, Borestus pagoda, Borestus planiapicata, Borestus procerus, Borestus rotundatus, Borestus similis, Borestus texanus, Borestus wrighti
Ecology: epifaunal grazer