Amphiscapha

Amphiscapha
Temporal range: Penn - L Perm
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda or ?Monoplacophora
Superfamily: Euomphaloidea
Family: Euomphalidae
Genus: Amphiscapha
J.B. Knight, 1942

Amphiscapha is a fossil gastropod mollusk, or less likely a monoplacophoran, genus from the Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian of North and South America, included in the family Euomphalidae. It is sometimes regarded as a subgenus of Straparollus, S. (Amphiscapha) Knight 1942

Description

The shell in this genus is hyper strophic discoidal, with a flat base and a concave upper side. The location of what is presumed to be the exhalent channel is marked by a smooth or rugose ridge along the upper-outer margin, which lies along the edge of a flat to concave outer rim.

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