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
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (2 collections), Italy (4), Peru (1), United States (2: Alaska)
• Chazyan of Canada (6: Quebec), United States (30: Alabama, New York, Tennessee, Vermont)
• Whiterockian of Canada (6: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (24: Alaska, California, Nevada, Oklahoma)
• Fennian of Malaysia (3), Thailand (1)
• Dawan of Mongolia (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (6), Australia (1), Bolivia (1), China (12), United States (1: Montana)
• Arenigian of Argentina (1)
• Canadian of United States (1: Maryland)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Australia (18), Canada (95: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunvait, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (27), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (2), Greenland (5), Norway (6), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (8), the United Kingdom (3), United States (157: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Georgia, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
• Tremadoc of China (3), United States (5: Colorado, Utah, Virginia)
• Ibexian of United States (3: Nevada)
• Skullrockian of United States (1: New York)
Total: 441 collections including 541 occurrences