Luciellidae

Belongs within: Vetigastropoda.

The Luciellidae are a group of more or less trochiform gastropods known from the Ordovician to the Upper Carboniferous (Knight et al. 1960).

Characters (Knight et al. 1960): More or less trochiform, with marginal frill and broad shallow labral notch just below frill generating broad selenizone; ornament on upper whorl surface generally includes oblique strongly opisthocline threads or cords normal to prosocline growth lines.

<==Luciellidae
    |--Rhombella Bridge & Cloud 1947KC60
    |    `--*R. umbilicata (Ulrich & Bridge in Drake & Bridge 1932)KC60, TTE93 [=Roubidouxia umbilicataKC60]
    |--Prosolarium Perner 1903KC60
    |    `--*P. procerum Perner 1903KC60
    |--Epiptychia Perner 1907KC60
    |    `--*E. potens (Perner 1903) [=Clisospira potens]KC60
    |--Echinocirrus Ryckholt 1860 [=Cirridius deKoninck 1881]KC60
    |    `--*E. armatus (de Koninck 1843) [=Cirrus armatus, *Cirridius armatus]KC60
    `--Luciella de Koninck 1883BR05
         |--*L. eliana (de Koninck 1843) [=Pleurotomaria eliana]KC60
         |--L. elongata Grabau 1931G31
         |--L. huangiDX84
         |--L. infrasinuata Koken 1897TTE93
         |--L. perlimbata Grabau 1931G31
         `--L. planoconvexa Grabau 1931G31

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BR05] Bouchet, P., & J.-P. Rocroi. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47 (1–2): 1–397.

[DX84] Ding Y., Xia G., Duan C., Li W., Liu X. & Liang Z. 1984. Study on the early Permian stratigraphy and fauna in Zhesi district, Nei Mongol Zizhiqu (Inner Mongolia). Bulletin of the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences 10: 1–244, 58 pls.

[G31] Grabau, A. W. 1931. The Permian of Mongolia: A report on the Permian fauna of the Jisu Honguer limestone of Mongolia and its relations to the Permian of other parts of the world. American Museum of Natural History: New York.

[KC60] Knight, J. B., L. R. Cox, A. M. Keen, R. L. Batten, E. L. Yochelson & R. Robertson. 1960. Gastropoda: systematic descriptions. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt I. Mollusca 1: Mollusca—General Features, Scaphopoda, Amphineura, Monoplacophora, Gastropoda—General Features, Archaeogastropoda and some (mainly Paleozoic) Caenogastropoda and Opisthobranchia pp. I169–I331. Geological Society of America, and University of Kansas Press.

[TTE93] Tracey, S., J. A. Todd & D. H. Erwin. 1993. Mollusca: Gastropoda. In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 131–167. Chapman & Hall: London.