Macluritidae
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| Macluritidae Temporal range: | |
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| Maclurites sp., Ordovician, Ohio (USA) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Archaeogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Macluritoidea |
| Family: | †Macluritidae Carpenter, 1861[1] |
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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.
J.B Knight, et al., 1960[2] included the Macluritidae in the prosobranch Archeogastropoda and included the family in the Macluritacea. Linsely and Keir, 1984[3] 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,[4] 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.
