†superfamily Macluritoidea Carpenter 1861 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina

Alternative spelling: Macluritacea

Full reference: P.P. Carpenter. 1861. Lectures on Mollusca; or “shell-fish” and their allies. Annual Report of the Board of Regenst of the Smithsonian Institution 1860:151-283

Parent taxon: Euomphalina according to P. Jeffery 2003

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Knight et al. 1960, Kosnik 2002 and Linsley and Kier 1984

Sister taxa: Anomphaloidea, Bridegeites, Craspedostomatoidea, Euomphaloidea, Offlyeotrochus, Omphalotrochoidea, Ophiletoidea, Oriostomatoidea, Palaeotrochoidea, Platyceratoidea, Pseudophoroidea, Raphistomatoidea, Triassocirrus

Subtaxa: Macluritidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (2 collections), Italy (4), Peru (1), United States (2: Alaska)

• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Australia (14), Canada (88: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunvait, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (26), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (2), Greenland (4), Malaysia (3), Norway (6), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (8), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (153: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)

• Chazy of Canada (3: Quebec), United States (26: New York, Vermont)

• Llandeilo of Australia (3), China (4), United States (1: California)

• Whiterockian of Canada (5: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (23: California, Nevada, Oklahoma)

• Castlemainian of Australia (1)

• Arenigian of Argentina (1)

• Cassinian of Canada (9: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec), Greenland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (17: Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Vermont)

• Arenig of Argentina (6), Australia (1), Bolivia (1), China (12), United States (1: Montana)

• Dawan of Mongolia (1)

• Jeffersonian of Canada (2: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador)

• Canadian of United States (1: Maryland)

Total: 441 collections including 541 occurrences

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