Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Synonyms: Melissosoa Clarke 1909, Murchisonia (Sinuspira) Perner 1907, Sinuspira Perner 1907
Full reference: F. A. Roemer. 1855. Beiträge zur geologischen Kenntnis des nordwestlichen Harzbegirges. Paleontographica 5:1-44
Parent taxon: Murchisoniidae according to J. B. Knight et al. 1960
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Wagner 1999
Sister taxa: Anarconcha, Barroisocaulus, Bellazona, Biangularia, Brilonella, Cyrtostropha, Devonocerithioides, Domiporta, Eohormotomina, Farewellia, Glyphodeta, Helicospira, Kaseiella, Leptorima, Lodanaria, Mesocoelia, Micheliopsis, Micrentoma, Morania, Murchisonia, Parahormotomina, Predazzella, Protospira, Pseudoaclisina, Vladanella, Wuxuanella
Subtaxa: Michelia compacta Michelia cylindrica Michelia darwini Michelia persimilis Michelia planogyrata Michelia tenera Michelia tenue Michelia whiteavesi
Type: Michelia cylindrica
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Couvinien of Australia (1 collection)
• Devonian of Australia (3), Canada (1: New Brunswick), Germany (1), United States (3: Maine)
• Silurian of Canada (2: Ontario), China (1), the Czech Republic (3), Greenland (1), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Iowa, New York)
Total: 24 collections including 25 occurrences
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