Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Synonyms: Bridegeina Flower 1968, Bridgeina Flower 1968, Prohelicotoma Flower 1968
Full reference: E. Kirk. 1927. Macluritella, a new gasteropod genus from the Lower Ordovician of Colorado. The American Journal of Science 14:288-292
Parent taxon: Maclureadae according to P. J. Wagner 1999
See also Flower 1968, Flower 1968, Knight et al. 1960, Linsley and Kier 1984, Morris and Cleevely 1981, Sepkoski 2002, Wagner 2023 and Yochelson and Stinchcomb 1987
Sister taxa: Maclurina, Maclurites, Monitorella, Palliseria, Rousseauspira, Teiichispira, Zhuozishanospira
Subtaxa: Macluritella carinifera Macluritella gyroceras Macluritella imperfecta Macluritella marylandica Macluritella mediosulcata Macluritella multiseptarius Macluritella ornata Macluritella peachi Macluritella rotunda Macluritella sordida Macluritella stantoni Macluritella uniangulata
Type: Macluritella stantoni
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada collection)
• Arenig of United States (1: Montana)
• Canadian of United States (1: Maryland)
• Ordovician of Canada (2: British Columbia), Greenland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (24: Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Tremadoc of United States (5: Colorado, Utah, Virginia)
Total: 36 collections including 41 occurrences
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