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Extinct family of gastropods

Macluritidae
Temporal range: Lower Ordovician – Devonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Maclurites sp., Ordovician, Ohio (USA)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: †"Archaeogastropoda"
Superfamily: †Macluritoidea
Family: †Macluritidae
Carpenter, 1861
Genera

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Macluritidae is an extinct family of relatively large, Lower Ordovician to Devonian, macluritacean gastropods(?), hypserstrophically coiled, that is dextral while appearing sinistral, of which the genus Maclurites is arch-typical. The base of their shells is flat or gently protruding while the upper side is generally concave.

Taxonomy

Maclurina manitobensis, late Ordovician, Red River Formation, Manitoba (Canada).

J.B Knight, et al., 1960 included the Macluritidae in the prosobranch Archeogastropoda and included the family in the Macluritacea. Linsely and Keir, 1984 removed the Macluritidae, along with the Onychochilidae, to the Paragastropoda, a new class of gastropod-like molluscs proposed for forms which they concluded had untorted bodies.

Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, tentatively included the Macluritidae within the Gastropoda, placing them among Paleozoic molluscs with anisostrophically coiled shells of uncertain position (Gastropoda?) and within the superfamily Macluritoidea. This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera in the family Macluritidae include:

See also

References

  1. Carpenter P. P. 1861. Lectures on Mollusca; or “shell-fish” and their allies. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1860: 151-283. Page 216.
  2. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I, Mollusca 1. R.C. Moore (ed); Geol Soc of America and Univ Kansas Press, 1960.
  3. Robert M. Linsely & William M. Kier, 1984. The Paragastropoda: a proposal for a new class of Paleozoic Mollusca. Malacologia, v.25, no1, pp 241-254.
  4. Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278
  5. Macluritidae. The Paleobiology Database, accessed 12 August 2009.
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