Murchisonioidea
| Murchisonioidea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Murchisonioidea Koken, 1896 |
| Families | |
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Murchisonioidea is an extinct superfamily of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.[1]
This superfamily was previously included in the Caenogastropoda by Ponder and Warén (1988) and by Bandel in studies published in 1993 and 1997. However, studies by Tracey et al. (1993)[2] and by Frýda and Manda (1997)[3] put them into the Archaeogastropoda. This has been confirmed by new findings on archaeopod-type protoconchs in species from this families, dating from the early Devonian.
Taxonomy
- † family Murchisoniidae Koken, 1896
- † family Cheeneetnukiidae Blodgett & Cook, 2002
- † family Hormotomidae Wenz, 1938
(Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger †)
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1–2).
- ↑ Tracey,, S.; J.A. Todd; D.H. Erwin (1993). Mollusca, Gastropoda; in : M.J. Benton (ed.) The Fossil Record, volume 2. London: Chapman & hall. pp. 131–167.
- ↑ J. Frýda & S. Manda (1997). "A gastropod faunule from the Monograptus uniformis graptolite Biozone (Early Lochkovian, Early Devonian) in Bohemia". Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Pläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 80: 59–122.
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