Euomphalus is a genus of fossil marine gastropods known to have lived from the Silurian to the Middle Permian.[1][2]
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| Euomphalus pentangulatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | †Euomphalidae |
| Genus: | †Euomphalus J. de C. Sowerby, 1814 |
Description
editEuomphalus is characterized by a closely coiled shell with a depressed to slightly elevated spire and a channel-bearing angulation (a selenizone) on the upper surface of the whorls. The lower surface of the whorls is rounded to angular.[1]
Amphiscapha, Philoxene, and Straparollus are among similar related genera. Serpulospira, also related, differs in having a broadly open spiral in the adult form.
Taxonomy
editEuomphalus is the type genus of the family Euomphalidae. Euomphalus pentangulatus (Sowerby, 1814) is its type species.
Species
edit- Euomphalus pentangulatus Sowerby, 1814(type)
- Euomphalus radiatus Menke, 1850: synonym of Heliacus (Heliacus) areola bicanaliculatus (Valenciennes, 1832) represented as Heliacus areola bicanaliculatus (Valenciennes, 1832)
References
edit- ^ a b J.B.Knight,et al 1960. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I, Mollusca 1, ch on systematic descriptions. Geol Soc of America and Univ Kansas Press.
- ^ (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. - Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3.
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