Euomphalidae
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| 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] |
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Schizostomatidae Bronn, 1849 (inv.) | |
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.
