Macluritidae is an extinct family of relatively large, Lower Ordovician to Devonian, macluritacean gastropods, 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
J.B Knight, et al., 1960Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I, Mollusca 1. R.C. Moore (ed); Geol Soc of America and Univ Kansas Press, 1960. included the Macluritidae in the prosobranch Archeogastropoda and included the family in the Macluritacea. Linsely and Keir, 1984Robert M. Linsely & William M. Kier, 1984. The Paragastropoda: a proposal for a new class of Paleozoic Mollusca. Malacologia, v.25, no1, pp 241-254. 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,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. . ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278 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:Macluritidae. The Paleobiology Database, accessed 12 August 2009. Bridgeina Maclurina Macluritella - synonym: Prohelicotoma. Maclurites Lesueur, 1818 - type genus of the family Macluritidae - synonyms: Maclurea, Coelocentrus, Polyenaulus, Paramaclurites. Monitorella Palliseria Rousseauspira Scaevogyra Teiichispira Zhuozishanospira
See also The Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
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