| Porcellioidea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| (unranked): | †Porcellioidea Koken, 1895 |
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Porcellioidea is an extinct superfamily of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.[1]
This superfamily dates back to the Paleozoic. They developed sinistrally (left-handed) or planispirally coiled teleoconchs.[2]
- ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
- ^ Frýda J. (2004). "Two new gastropod genera (Porcellioidea, Archaeogastropoda) from the Lower Carboniferous of Belgium" (PDF). Czech Geological Society. 49 (1–2).