Macluritidae is an extinct family of relatively large, Lower Ordovician to Devonian, macluritacean gastropods(?), hypserstrophically coiled, that is dextral while appearing sinsitral, of which the genus Macllurites is arch-typical. The base of their shells is flat or gently protruding while the upper side is generally concave.

Taxonomy

J.B Knight, et al., 1960 included the Macluritidae in the prosobranch Archeogastropoda and included the family in the Macluritacea. Linsely and Keir, 1984 removed the Macluritidae, along with the Onychochilidae

Onychochilidae

Onychochilidae is an extinct family of small, upper Cambrian to lower Devonian, hyperstrophically coiled molluscs, generally with smooth whorls and elongate apertures, commonly regarded as gastropods....

, to the Paragastropoda, a new class of gastroropod-like molluscs proposed for forms which they concluded had untorted bodies.

Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, tentativley included the Macluritidae within the Gastropoda, placing them among Paleozoic molluscs with anisostrophically coiled shells of uncertain position (Gastropoda?) and withinin the superfamy Macluritoidea. This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera in the family Macluritidae include::

• Bridgeina
• Maclurina
• Macluritella - synonym: Prohelicotoma.
• Maclurites Lesueur, 1818 - type genus
  Type genus
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   of the family Macluritidae - synonyms: Paramaclurites, Coelocentrus, Mitrospira, Polyenaulus.
• Monitorella
• Palliseria
• Rousseauspira
• Scaevogyra
• Teiichispira
• Zhuozishanospira