Murchisonioidea
Extinct superfamily of gastropods
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Murchisonioidea is an extinct superfamily of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.[1]
| Murchisonioidea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Pleurotomariida |
| 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
- Family Murchisoniidae Koken, 1896
- Family Cheeneetnukiidae Blodgett & Cook, 2002
- Family Hormotomidae Wenz, 1938
