Murchisoniidae

Murchisoniidae
Murchisonia sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Pleurotomariida
Superfamily:	†Murchisonioidea
Family:	†Murchisoniidae Koken, 1896
Synonyms
† Hormotomidae Wenz, 1938

Murchisoniidae is an extinct family of fossil gastropods in the superfamily Murchisonioidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera within the family Murchisoniidae include:

• Murchisonia d'Archiac & Verneuil, 1841, the type genus

References

• 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.

External links

• https://archive.org/stream/palozoicfossil01geol#page/234/mode/2up

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