Sinuitidae

Belongs within: Bellerophontoidea.

The Sinuitidae are a group of involute to partly evolute planispiral bellerophontoids with a posterior apertural sinus or broad slit, known from the early Late Cambrian to the Early Triassic (Runnegar & Jell 1976).

Sinuitidae [Sinuitoidea]BR05
    |  i. s.: Cloudia Knight 1947RJ76
    |           `--*C. buttsi Knight 1947KC60
    |         Gamadiscus Horny 1962RJ76
    |         Strepsodiscus Knight 1948RJ76
    |           |--*S. major Knight 1948KC60
    |           `--S. paucivolutaW01
    |         Trigyra Raymond 1908RJ76
    |           `--*T. ulrichi Raymond 1908KC60
    |         AnconochilusK52
    |--Aiptospira Wang 1980 [Aiptospirinae]BR05
    |    `--*A. papilionis Wang 1980BR17
    |--Hispanosinuites Frýda & Gutierrez-Marco 1996 [Hispanosinuitinae]BR05
    |    `--*H. peeli Frýda & Gutierrez-Marco 1996BR17
    `--SinuitinaeBR05
         |--Protowarthia Ulrich & Scofield 1897 [Protowarthiidae]BR05
         |    `--*P. cancellata (Hall 1847) [=Bellerophon cancellatus]BR17
         |--Ptomatis Clarke 1899 [incl. Fuchsella Spriestersbach 1942]KC60
         |    `--*P. patulus (Hall 1843) [=Bellerophon patulus]KC60
         |--Crenistriella Knight 1945KC60
         |    `--*C. crenistria (Hall 1879) [=Bellerophon crenistria]KC60
         `--Sinuites Koken 1896W01, BR05 [incl. Discolites Emmons 1855 non de Montfort 1808KC60]
              |  i. s.: *S. bilobatus (Sowerby 1839) [=Bellerophon bilobatus]KC60
              |--+--S. globularisW01
              |  `--S. planodorsataW01
              `--+--S. granistriatusW01
                 `--+--S. cancellatusW01
                    `--+--S. obesusW01
                       `--+--Selesinuites perneriW01
                          `--+--S. destombesiW01
                             `--+--S. reticulatusW01
                                `--+--S. sowerbyiW01
                                   `--Strangulites Horny 1962W01, RJ76
                                        `--S. strangulatusW01

*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.

[BR17] Bouchet, P., J.-P. Rocroi, B. Hausdorf, A. Kaim, Y. Kano, A. Nützel, P. Parkhaev, M. Schrödl & E. E. Strong. 2017. Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia 61 (1–2): 1–526.

[K52] Knight, J. B. 1952. Primitive fossil gastropods and their bearing on gastropod classification. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117 (13): 1–56, 2 pls.

[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.

[RJ76] Runnegar, B., & P. A. Jell. 1976. Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution. Alcheringa 1 (2): 109–138.

[W01] Wagner, P. J. 2001. Gastropod phylogenetics: progress, problems and implications. Journal of Paleontology 75 (6): 1128–1140.