See text Macluritidae is an extinct family of relatively large, Lower Ordovician to Devonian, macluritacean gastropods(?

), hypserstrophically coiled, that is dextral while appearing sinistral, of which the genus Maclurites is arch-typical.

The base of their shells is flat or gently protruding while the upper side is generally concave.

Linsely and Keir, 1984[3] removed the Macluritidae, along with the Onychochilidae, to the Paragastropoda, a new class of gastropod-like molluscs proposed for forms which they concluded had untorted bodies.

Genera in the family Macluritidae include:[5] This prehistoric gastropod article is a stub.