Porcellioidea is an extinct

superfamily SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...

of small to large

sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

s, marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the clade

Vetigastropoda Vetigastropoda is a major taxonomic group of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that form a very ancient lineage. Taxonomically the Vetigastropoda are sometimes treated as an order, although they are treated as an unranked clade in Bouch ...

. This superfamily dates back to the

Paleozoic The Paleozoic ( , , ; or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three Era (geology), geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. Beginning 538.8 million years ago (Ma), it succeeds the Neoproterozoic (the last era of the Proterozoic Eon) and ends 251.9 Ma a ...

. They developed sinistrally (left-handed) or planispirally coiled teleoconchs.

Taxonomy

Bouchet & Rocroi based their classification on the study by Bandel, published in 1993. However, the position of the Porcelliidae is unsure, as noted by Peter J. Wagner in 2002. Wagner reported that the Porcelliidae belongs to the subfamily Gosseletininae, family Gosseletinidae, in the superfamily

Eotomarioidea Eotomarioidea is an extinct family (biology), superfamily of small to large sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda. Taxonomy * Family Eotomariidae Wenz, 1938 * Family Gosseletinidae Wenz, 1938 * Fa ...

. This superfamily consists of the four following families (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): * † family

Porcelliidae Porcelliidae is an extinct family of gastropods in the clade Vetigastropoda Vetigastropoda is a major taxonomic group of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that form a very ancient lineage. Taxonomically the Vetigastropoda are sometimes ...

Koken, 1895 * † family

Cirridae Cirridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Porcellioidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). These snails date from the Mesozoic era, and are sinistral ...

Cossmann, 1916 * † family Discohelicidae Schröder, 1995 * † family Pavlodiscidae Frýda, 1998 (Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger †)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7229978 Vetigastropoda