Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Alternative spellings: Bembexia (Murchisonia), Holopella (Murchisonia), Pleurotomaria (Murchisonia)
Synonyms: Goniostropha Oehlert and Oehlert 1888, Murchisonia (Goniostropha) Oehlert and Oehlert 1888
Full reference: E. J. A. d'Archiac and E.P. de Verneuil. 1841. Note sur le genre Murchisonia. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 12:154-169
Parent taxon: Murchisoniidae according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Hall 1856, Knight et al. 1960, Lawson 1955, Murchison 1854, Perner 1907 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anarconcha, Barroisocaulus, Bellazona, Biangularia, Brilonella, Cyrtostropha, Devonocerithioides, Domiporta, Eohormotomina, Farewellia, Glyphodeta, Helicospira, Kaseiella, Leptorima, Lodanaria, Mesocoelia, Michelia, Micheliopsis, Micrentoma, Morania, Parahormotomina, Predazzella, Protospira, Pseudoaclisina, Vladanella, Wuxuanella
Subtaxa: Goniostropha bachelieri Goniostropha chapmani Goniostropha extenuata Murchisonia (Cheilotoma) Murchisonia (Goniospira) Murchisonia (Goniostropha) turriculata Murchisonia (Murchisonia) Murchisonia (Ostioma) Murchisonia aciculata Murchisonia akidota Murchisonia allevata Murchisonia anderdoniae Murchisonia anglica Murchisonia angulata Murchisonia angustetaeniata Murchisonia archiaci Murchisonia arctica Murchisonia auctor Murchisonia basalestriata Murchisonia bassensis Murchisonia biarmica Murchisonia bilineata Murchisonia brevis Murchisonia cambria Murchisonia cicela Murchisonia concava Murchisonia conradi Murchisonia convexa Murchisonia declivisdiot Murchisonia deflexa Murchisonia defrancei Murchisonia delagei Murchisonia deludisubzona Murchisonia dornapica Murchisonia dowlingii Murchisonia dublinensis Murchisonia dudleyensis Murchisonia eichwaldi Murchisonia elegans Murchisonia fornicata Murchisonia fusiformis Murchisonia gourvenneci Murchisonia gracilicrista Murchisonia gracilis Murchisonia gubleri Murchisonia hebe Murchisonia hercynica Murchisonia holynensis Murchisonia intercedens Murchisonia intermedia Murchisonia jackjelli Murchisonia kanekoi Murchisonia kirchnera Murchisonia laphami Murchisonia lawlessi Murchisonia leda Murchisonia liufengshanensis Murchisonia lochkoviensis Murchisonia lohrheimi Murchisonia margaritata Murchisonia marri Murchisonia megathanae Murchisonia micula Murchisonia minuta Murchisonia mylitta Murchisonia nerinea Murchisonia obesa Murchisonia obtusangula Murchisonia oegensis Murchisonia oehlerti Murchisonia ordovicia Murchisonia padangensis Murchisonia paeckelmanni Murchisonia pagodeformis Murchisonia petila Murchisonia placida Murchisonia pleurotomarioides Murchisonia plumleyi Murchisonia pragensis Murchisonia pritchardi Murchisonia pygmaea Murchisonia reverdyi Murchisonia rotundata Murchisonia sandbergeri Murchisonia sandbergi Murchisonia selenalta Murchisonia sera Murchisonia sibleyensis Murchisonia similis Murchisonia sphaerulata Murchisonia steltenbergensis Murchisonia subcarinata Murchisonia subeuglypha Murchisonia subornata Murchisonia subulata Murchisonia taltiensis Murchisonia tenuissima Murchisonia tillesae Murchisonia timorensis Murchisonia tricincta Murchisonia trilineata Murchisonia turbinata Murchisonia turriformis Murchisonia turris Murchisonia vicariana Murchisonia vincta Murchisonia wandovalensis Murchisonia xanthippe Murchisonia zimmermanni
Type: Turritella bilineata
Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Switzerland (1 collection)
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (1), Hungary (1), Indonesia (3), Italy (5), United States (1: Alaska)
• Permian of Cambodia (1), China (5), Indonesia (1), United States (8: Alaska, Arizona, California, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Australia (1), Canada (1: Alberta), the United Kingdom (3), United States (7: California, Indiana, New Mexico, Texas)
• Givetian of France (1)
• Devonian of Australia (18), Austria (9), Canada (12: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario), China (3), the Czech Republic (4), France (1), Germany (24), Japan (1), Luxembourg (1), Morocco (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (26: Alaska, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian of Canada (17: Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec), the Czech Republic (3), Germany (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (30: Alaska, California, Georgia, Indiana, New York, Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Ordovician of Canada (4: British Columbia, Newfoundland), Germany (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (5: Alaska, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri)
Total: 223 collections including 302 occurrences
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