Euomphalina
Encyclopedia
Euomphalina, is a taxonomic order
of extinct sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks, known from fossil
s. This order includes the extinct superfamilies
Euomphaloidea
, Macluritoidea
, Ophiletoidea, and Platyceratoidea.
This taxon is not used by the most up-to-date system of classifying gastropods taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
and it is an available name
.
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...
of extinct sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks, known from fossil
Fossil
Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...
s. This order includes the extinct superfamilies
Taxonomic rank
In biological classification, rank is the level in a taxonomic hierarchy. Examples of taxonomic ranks are species, genus, family, and class. Each rank subsumes under it a number of less general categories...
Euomphaloidea
Euomphaloidea
Euomphaloidea, originally Euomphalacea, is an extinct superfamily of marine molluscs that lived from the Early Ordovician to the Late Cretaceous, included in the Gastropoda but speculated as instead perhaps Monoplacophora.-Description:...
, Macluritoidea
Macluritoidea
The Macluritoidea,Macluritacea as originally spelled is a superfamily of hyperstrophically coiled, Upper Cambrian to Devonian, archaeogastropods, or paragastropods according to Linsely and Kier ....
, Ophiletoidea, and Platyceratoidea.
This taxon is not used by the most up-to-date system of classifying gastropods taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...
and it is an available name
Available name
In zoology, an available name is a scientific name for a taxon of animals that has been published conforming to all the mandatory provisions of the ICZN Code for the establishment of a zoological name....
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Taxonomy
- Superfamily EuomphaloideaEuomphaloideaEuomphaloidea, originally Euomphalacea, is an extinct superfamily of marine molluscs that lived from the Early Ordovician to the Late Cretaceous, included in the Gastropoda but speculated as instead perhaps Monoplacophora.-Description:...
- Family AnomphalidaeAnomphalidae†Anomphalidae is an extinct family of paleozoic gastropod mollusks of basal taxa that are certainly Gastropoda .- Taxonomy :...
- Family EuomphalidaeEuomphalidaeEuomphalidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic molluscs which may possibly be gastropods with anisostrophically coiled shells .- Genera :Genera in the family Euomphalidae include:...
- Family HelicotomidaeHelicotomidaeHelicotomidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic molluscs with anisostrophically coiled shells of uncertain position .- Taxonomy :...
- Family HolopeidaeHolopeidae†Holopeidae is an extinct family of paleozoic gastropod mollusks.This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies....
- Family LesueurillidaeLesueurillidaeLesueurillidae is an extinct family of paleozoic molluscs with anisostrophically coiled shells of uncertain position .- Taxonomy :...
- Family OmphalotrochidaeOmphalotrochidaeOmphalotrochidae is an extinct family of paleozoic molluscs with anisostrophically coiled shells of uncertain position .- Taxonomy :...
- Family PlanitrochidaePlanitrochidaePlanitrochidae is an extinct family of paleozoic gastropod mollusks.This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies....
- Family PseudophoridaePseudophoridaePseudophoridae is an extinct family of paleozoic gastropod mollusks.This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies....
- Family RaphistomatidaeRaphistomatidaeThe Raphistomatidae is a family of Paleozoic gastropods established by Koken, 1896, whose range extends from the Upper Cambrian to Middle Permian, comprising lentuclar, turbiniform, and stepped shells with a short slit, notch, or sinus on the aperture lip that generally results in a selenizone.J...
- Family Anomphalidae
- Superfamily MacluritoideaMacluritoideaThe Macluritoidea,Macluritacea as originally spelled is a superfamily of hyperstrophically coiled, Upper Cambrian to Devonian, archaeogastropods, or paragastropods according to Linsely and Kier ....
- Family Archaeospiridae
- Family MacluritidaeMacluritidaeMacluritidae is an extinct family of relatively large, Lower Ordovician to Devonian, macluritacean gastropods, hypserstrophically coiled, that is dextral while appearing sinsitral, of which the genus Macllurites is arch-typical...
- Superfamily Ophiletoidea
- Family OphiletidaeOphiletidaeOphiletidae is an extinct taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs.Ophiletidae is the only family in the superfamily Ophiletoidea.This family has no subfamilies....
- Family Ophiletidae
- Superfamily Platyceratoidea
- Family PlatyceratidaePlatyceratidaePlatyceratidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic gastropods of uncertain position in the clade Neritimorpha...
- Family Platyceratidae