Murchisonioidea is an extinct superfamily of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.[1]
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| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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| Superfamily: | Murchisonioidea Koken, 1896
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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 edit
- Family Murchisoniidae Koken, 1896
- Family Cheeneetnukiidae Blodgett & Cook, 2002
- Family Hormotomidae Wenz, 1938
References edit
- ^ 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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