Palaeos Palaeos Paragastropoda
Mollusca Dendrogram

Paragastropoda

Abbreviated Dendrogram
CONCHIFERA
`==Helcionelloida
   `--+--PARAGASTROPODA
      |  |--Pelagiellida
      |  `--Mimospirida
      |     |--Onychochilidae  
      |     `--+--Cliospiridae  
      |        `-?Omphallocirridae  
      `--+--Bellerophontoidea (torted)
         `--GASTROPODA (crown group) 
Contents

Overview
Paragastropoda
Pelagiellida
Mimospirida
Omphallocirridae
Dendrogram



The following dendrogram represnts one possible phylogeny, by no means the only one, maybe nort even the most likely. It's posted here until a proper revision can be made. MAK120617



<== o HELCIONELLOIDA
   |-- Helcionella subrugosa
   |-- Oelandia rugosa
   `--+-- Latouchella merino
      `--+-- Coreospirida
         `--+--+-- Euomphalopsis involuta
            |  `-- Macluritella? walcotti
            `--+--o PARAGASTROPODA
               |  |--o Pelagiellida (= Pelagielloidea)
               |  |  `--o Pelagiellidae
               |  |     |-- Costipelagiella zazvorkai
               |  |     `-- Pelagiella subangulata
               |  `--o Mimospirida (= Onychochiloidea) 
               |     |--o Onychochilidae
               |     |   |-- "Maclurites" thomsoni
               |     |   `--+-- Scaevogyra swezeyi
               |     |      `--+-- Kobayashiella circe
               |     |         `--o Matherella/Matherellina
               |     |            |-- Matherellina walcotti
               |     |            `-- Matherella saratogensis
               |     |--o Cliospiridae
               |     |   |-- Cliospirinae
               |     |   |-- Trochoclisinae
               |     |   `-- Atracurinae
               |     | ?-- Omphalocirridae  (gastropod or paragastropod)
               |     | ??--Macluritidae  (probably stem or possibly crown-group gastropods, possibly paragastropod)
               |     `--o Yangtzespiriidae
               `--+--BELLEROPHONTOIDEA (torted)
                  `--+?--Euomphaloidea (if stem gastropod, may be crown-group, very possibly paragastropod)
                     `--GASTROPODA (crown group)


References

 Peter Wagner [no date] Outgroups (website at http://pjw3.fmnh.org no longer current)

 Paul Jeffery [no date] Suprageneric classification of Class GASTROPODA (website at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/palaeontology/i&p/gastroclass/gastroclass.htm no longer current)

Linsley and Kier 1984 pp.250-1



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last modified ATW060227; dendrogram revised MAK120617
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