Euomphalidae
| Euomphalidae | |
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| A specimen of Euomphalus pentangulatus on display at the Paleontological Museum in Munich | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | ?Gastropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Euomphaloidea |
| Family: | †Euomphalidae White, 1877[1] |
| Synonyms | |
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Schizostomatidae Bronn, 1849 (inv.) | |
Euomphalidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic marine molluscs which may be gastropods with anisostrophically coiled shells (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). The shells show a selenizone.
Genera
Genera in the family Euomphalidae include:[2]
- Acanthonema
- Alaionema
- Amphiscapha
- Anisostoma
- Araeonema - synonym: Palaeoturbina
- Austerum
- Bicarina
- Biformispira
- Centrifugus - synonym: Hisingeria
- Coelodiscus
- Condonella
- Cylicioscapha
- Discotropis
- Eleutherospira
- Elkoceras
- Euomphalopsis
- Euomphalus J. de C. Sowerby, 1814 - type genus - synonyms: Phymatifer, Schizostoma, Paromphalus.
- Fletcherviewia
- Goldfussoceras
- Hippocampoides
- Kiaeromphalus
- Leptomphalus
- Linsleyella
- Nevadaspira
- Nodeuomphalus
- Novakopteron
- Nummocalcar
- Odontomaria
- Offleyotrochus
- Phanerotinus
- Planotectus
- Platybasis
- Pleuronotus
- Poleumita - synonyms: Polytropina, Polytropis.
- Rhabdotocochlis
- Saturnotropis
- Sinistrispira
- Sinutropis
- Spinicharybdiinae
- Straparollus
- Stusakia
- Tychobrahea
- Weeksia
- Woehrmannia
References
- ↑ White C. A. (1877). Report upon the invertebrate fossils collected in portions of Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, by parties of the expeditions of 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874. Report upon United States geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian. Volume 4, Paleontology. Government printing Office, Washington DC. 219 pp., 21 plates. Page 158.
- ↑ Euomphalidae. The Paleobiology Database, accessed 12 August 2009.
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