Murchisoniidae is an extinct family of fossil gastropods in the superfamily Murchisonioidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[1]
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| Murchisonia sp. | |
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| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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| Family: | Murchisoniidae Koken, 1896
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† Hormotomidae Wenz, 1938 | |
This family has no subfamilies.
Genera
editGenera within the family Murchisoniidae include:
- Murchisonia d'Archiac & Verneuil, 1841, the type genus
References
edit- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Murchisoniidae Koken, 1896 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=711907 on 2017-02-24
- Koken, E. (1896). Die Gastropoden der Trias um Hallstadt. Jahrbuch der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt. 46(1): 37−126.
- Wenz, W. (1938-1944). Gastropoda. Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. 1-1639. In: Schindewolf, O.H. (Ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6. Verlag Gebrüder Bornträger, Berlin.
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