Order

Murchisoniina Cox et Knight, 1960

Selection of related publications

Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A., Isakar, M., Toom, U. 2025. Rare Arachnostega traces in brachiopod and gastropod molds from the Silurian of Gotland (Sweden) and Saaremaa (Estonia): was tropical climate unfavorable for the trace makers?. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abhandlungen 313, 2, 153-159. DOI:10.1127/njgpa/2024/1226

Vinn, O., Liang, K., Isakar, M., Alkahtane, A. A., Al Farraj, S., El Hedeny, M. 2025. The evolutionary innovation of coral colonization on motile gastropod shells arose shortly after the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event in Baltica. Palaios 40, 2, 62-69. DOI:10.2110/palo.2024.010

Toom, U., Vinn, O., Isakar, M., Madison, A., Hints, O. 2020. Small faecal pellets in Ordovician shelly fossils from Estonia, Baltoscandia. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 69, 1, 1-19. DOI:10.3176/earth.2020.01

Frisk, Ǻ. M., Ebbestad, J. O. R. 2007. Paragastropoda, Tergomya and Gastropoda (Mollusca) from the Upper Ordovician Dalby Limestone, Sweden. GFF 129, 2, 83-99. DOI:10.1080/11035890701292083

Isakar, M. 1990. Bivalvia and Gastropoda. Field Meeting Estonia 1990. An Excursion Guidebook, pp. 64-65. Estonia Academy of Sciences.

Saladžius, V. J. 1966. Mollusk fauna of the Silurian deposits of the south of the East Baltic territory. Palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Baltic and the Byelorussia. Number I (VI), pp. 31-73. Mintis.

Öpik, A. 1930. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Kukruse-(C2-C3-)Stufe in Eesti. IV. Tartu Ülikooli Geoloogia Instituudi Toimetused 24, 1-34.

Koken, E., Perner, J. 1925. Die Gastropoden des baltischen Untersilurs. Zapiski Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk 37, 1, 1-318.

Bekker, H. 1925. Lühike ülevaade Eesti geoloogiast (Eozoiline ja paleozoiline ladekond). Eesti Loodus. Äratrükk koguteosest "Eesti", pp. 31-61.

Lindström, G. 1884. On the Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 19, 6, 1-250. P. A. Norstedt.

Kjerulf, T. 1865. Veiviser ved geologiske excursioner i Christiania Omegn med et Farvetrykt Kart or Flere Traensit. Universitätsprogram for andet Halvaar 1865. pp. . Brøgger & Christie's Bogtrykkeri.

Eichwald, E. 1860. Lethaea Rossica ou Paléontologie de la Russie. Premier volume. Ancienne Période en deux sections. pp. XIX+1–1657. E. Schweizerbart. DOI:10.5962/bhl.title.52391

Schmidt, Fr. 1858. Untersuchungen über die Silurische Formation von Ehstland, Nord-Livland und Oesel. Archiv für die Naturkunde Liv-, Ehst- und Kurlands 2, 1, 1-249. Heinrich Laakmann.

Eichwald, E. 1854. Die Grauwackenschichten von Liv- und Estland. Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 27, 1, 1-111.

Pacht, R. 1849. Der devonische Kalk in Livland. Ein Beitrag zur Geognosie der Ostseeprovinzen. pp. 1-52. J. C. Schünmann's Wittwe und C. Mattiesen.

List of species

1. Brachytomaria baltica (Verneuil, 1845) | Jõhvi Substage→Rakvere Stage

2. Brachytomaria nodulosa (Schmidt, 1858) | Nabala Stage→Pirgu Stage

3. Brachytomaria plautini Koken et Perner, 1925 | Kunda Stage

4. Cataschisma nitida (Koken et Perner, 1925) | Porkuni Stage

5. Cataschisma winkleri (Öpik, 1930) | Kukruse Stage

6. Deaechospira elliptica (Hisinger, 1831) | Lasnamägi Stage→Kukruse Stage

7. Deaechospira inflata (Koken, 1896) | Aseri Stage→Lasnamägi Stage

8. Deaechospira maritima (Koken, 1897) | Aseri Stage

9. Ectomaria nieszkowskii (Schmidt, 1858) | Porkuni Stage

10. Eocryptaenia singularis Koken et Perner, 1925 | Porkuni Stage

11. Eotomaria notabilis (Eichwald, 1840)

12. Globonema piersalense (Koken, 1897) | Pirgu Stage

13. Hormotoma exilis (Eichwald, 1854) | Rakvere Stage→Nabala Stage

14. Hormotoma insignis (Eichwald, 1856) | Rakvere Stage→Pirgu Stage

15. Hormotoma meyendorfi (Koken, 1896) | Porkuni Stage

16. Hormotoma rudis Koken et Perner, 1925 | Pirgu Stage

17. Hormotoma scorbiculata (Koken, 1897) | Pirgu Stage

18. Latitaenia aequicrescens (Koken, 1897) | Vormsi Stage

19. Latitaenia kirnaensis Koken et Perner, 1925 | Nabala Stage

20. Liospira wesenbergense (Koken, 1897) | Rakvere Stage

Klassificering

Organism group	Biota
Domain	Eukaryota
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Subclass	Orthogastropoda
Order	Murchisoniina
Superfamily	Eotomarioidea
	Loxonematoidea
	Murchisonioidea
	Trochonematoidea
Family	Straparollinidae
	Pleurotomariidae