Euomphalus

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Euomphalus
Temporal range: Silurian–Kungurian
Euomphalus pentangulatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: †Euomphalidae
Genus: †Euomphalus
J. de C. Sowerby, 1814

Euomphalus is a

marine gastropods known to have lived from the Silurian to the Middle Permian.[1][2]

Description

Euomphalus 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

Euomphalus is the type genus of the family Euomphalidae. Euomphalus pentangulatus (Sowerby, 1814) is its type species.

Species

  • 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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ISBN 80-7067-599-3
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