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 |
Synonyms | |
Schizostomatidae Bronn, 1849 (inv.) |
Schizostomatidae Bronn, 1849 (inv.)
Euomphalopteridae Bronn, 1849 (inv.)
Polytropidae Ulrich, 1897 (inv.)
Straparollinae Cossmann, 1916
Poleumitidae Wenz, 1938
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 in the family Euomphalidae include: