Alternative spelling: Archinacellacea
Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1956. New families of Gastropoda. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2):41-42
Parent taxon: Archinacellida according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Bouchet et al. 2017, Knight and Yochelson 1960, Peel and Horný 1999 and Wahlman 1992
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Archaeopragidae Archinacellidae Damilinidae Metoptomatidae Solandangella
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Triassic of Hungary (1 collection), Italy (1)
• Permian of Cambodia (1), Canada (1: Alberta), China (2), Greece (1), Indonesia (1), Malaysia (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (21: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Antarctica (1), Australia (2), Canada (1: Alberta), Ireland (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (10: Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Nevada, Texas)
• Devonian of Australia (1), Austria (1), Canada (2: Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic (1), South Africa (1)
• Silurian of Canada (1: Ontario), the Czech Republic (4)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (2), Spain (3)
• Whiterockian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (1: Nevada)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Quebec), United States (15: New York)
• Ordovician of Canada (21: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), the Czech Republic (9), France (2), Greenland (1), Norway (6), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (50: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin)
• Cressagian of South Korea (1)
• Cambrian of United States (1: Wisconsin)
Total: 187 collections including 228 occurrences