Euomphalina
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| Euomphalina Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Archaeogastropoda |
| Suborder: | †Euomphalina de Koninck 1881 |
| Superfamilies | |
| Synonyms | |
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Macluritina Cox and Knight 1960 | |
The Euomphalina comprise a major suborder of mainly Paleozoic archaeogastropods,[1] shells of which are hyperstrophic to depressed orthostrophic, commonly with an angulation at the outer upper whorl surface thought to be coincident with the exhalent channel; shell wall thick, outer layer calcitic, inner layers aragonitic but not nacreous; operculum calcareous and heavy. Their range is from the Upper Cambrian to the Triassic, and possibly as high as the Upper Cretaceous.[2]
The suborder Euomphalina de Koninck 1881 is synonymous with Macluritina (Cox and Knight 1960).[3]
The suborder Euomphalina includes the extinct superfamilies Euomphaloidea, Macluritoidea, Ophiletoidea, and Platyceratoidea.