†family Murchisoniidae Koken 1896 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae

Full reference: E. Koken. 1896. Die Leitfossilien. Ein Handbuch für den Unterricht und für das Bestimmen von Versteinerungen 1-848

Parent taxon: Murchisonioidea according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Batten 1985, Bouchet et al. 2005, Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Heidelberger and Koch 2005, Knight et al. 1960, Kosnik 2002, Ponder and Warén 1988, Rohr et al. 2003 and Wagner 1999

Sister taxa: Cheeneetnukiidae, Hormotomidae, Kosovoconcha, Mendelia, Plethospiridae

Subtaxa: Anarconcha Barroisocaulus Bellazona Biangularia Brilonella Cyrtostropha Devonocerithioides Domiporta Eohormotomina Farewellia Glyphodeta Helicospira Kaseiella Leptorima Lodanaria Mesocoelia Michelia Micheliopsis Micrentoma Morania Murchisonia Parahormotomina Predazzella Protospira Pseudoaclisina Vladanella Wuxuanella

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Type: Murchisonia

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Switzerland (1 collection)

• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (8), Hungary (1), Indonesia (3), Italy (7), United States (1: Alaska)

• Permian of Cambodia (1), China (7), Indonesia (1), Nepal (1), the Russian Federation (2), Tunisia (4), United States (10: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Texas, Utah)

• Desmoinesian of United States (2: New Mexico, Texas)

• Pennsylvanian of United States (1: California)

• Chesterian of United States (2: Utah)

• Mississippian of United States (1: California)

• Carboniferous of Australia (6), Belgium (1), Canada (1: Alberta), China (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (15: California, Indiana, Nevada, New mexico, Oklahoma, Utah)

• Couvinien of Australia (1)

• Devonian of Australia (23), Austria (11), Canada (14: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Ontario), China (4), the Czech Republic (8), France (5), Germany (27), Japan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Luxembourg (1), Morocco (5), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (31: Alaska, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio)

• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)

• Silurian of Argentina (1), Canada (22: Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec), China (2), the Czech Republic (11), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (4), Sweden (10), the United Kingdom (6), United States (38: Alaska, California, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, New York, Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin)

• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (26: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Ireland (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (28: Alaska, Illinois, Iowa, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Tennessee)

• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)

• Cassinian of Canada (1: Newfoundland), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Missouri)

Total: 387 collections including 532 occurrences

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