Lesueurillidae is an extinct family of paleozoic molluscs (gastropods?) with anisostrophically coiled shells of uncertain position (Gastropoda?) (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
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Family: | Lesueurillidae P. J. Wagner, 2002[1]
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The taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005[2] categorizes Lesueurillidae in the superfamilia Euomphaloidea within the Paleozoic molluscs with anisostrophically coiled shells of uncertain position (Gastropoda?). This family has no subfamilies.
Genera in the family Lesueurillidae include[3]
Fossils of family Lesueurillidae has sharp peripheral band and a short notch formed from deep V-shaped sinus.[1] They are similar to Maclurites but they differ in early ontogenesis from them.[1]