†family Omphalotrochidae Knight 1945 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae

Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1945. Some new genera of Paleozoic Gastropoda. Journal of Paleontology 19(6):573-587

Parent taxon: Euomphaloidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005

See also Golikov and Starobogatov 1975, Gubanov et al. 1995, Jeffery 2003, Knight et al. 1960, Kosnik 2002, Linsley and Kier 1984 and Morris and Cleevely 1981

Sister taxa: Anomphalidae, Elasmonematidae, Euomphalidae, Helicotomidae, Holopeidae, Kitikamispira, Lesueurillidae, Microdomatidae, Neoplatyteichum, Nettersheimia, Omphalocirridae, Omphalocirrinae, Ornollus, Planitrochidae, Pseudophoridae, Pycnomphalidae, Rhenomphalus, Serpulospira, Tychobraheidae

Subtaxa: Arastra Archaeosphera Babylonites Bassotrochus Cinclidonema Coronopsis Fujispira Labrocuspis Omphalotrochus Orecopia Pseudomphalotrochus Sylvestria Trochonemopsis

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Leonard of United States (1: Idaho collection)

• Permian of Argentina (1), Bolivia (4), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (1), Mexico (4), New Zealand (3), Peru (7), the Russian Federation (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Thailand (1), Tunisia (1), United States (122: Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

• Virgilian of United States (1: New Mexico)

• Carboniferous of Morocco (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (2: New Mexico, Texas)

• Devonian of Australia (14), Canada (4: British columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario), Germany (2), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (4), the United Kingdom (3), United States (23: Alaska, Arizona, California, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Utah)

Total: 213 collections including 239 occurrences

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