Euomphalidae
Euomphalidae
Extinct family of gastropods
Euomphalidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic to early Mesozoic 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.
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| Euomphalidae | |
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| A specimen of Euomphalus pentangulatus on display at the Paleontological Museum in Munich | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Euomphaloidea |
| Family: | †Euomphalidae White, 1877[1] |
| Genera | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Schizostomatidae Bronn, 1849 (inv.) | |
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Genera in the family Euomphalidae include:[2]
- Acanthonema
- Alaionema
- Amphiscapha
- Anisostoma
- Araeonema - synonym: Palaeoturbina
- Austerum
- Bicarina
- Biformispira
- Centrifugus - synonym: Hisingeria
- Coelodiscus C.-C.Jao, 1941 (unaccepted)
- 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
- 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. p. 158.
- Euomphalidae. The Paleobiology Database, accessed 12 August 2009.
- Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1–526.
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