Omphalotrochus is an extinct taxonomic genus of Paleozoic gastropods.[1] It is widely distributed in the upper Paleozoic and has been an important index fossil.[2]

Omphalotrochus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Omphalotrochidae
Genus: Omphalotrochus

Species edit

Species in the genus Omphalotrochus include:

  • O. alleni Yochelson, 1956[3]
  • O. antiquus d'Orbigny, 1842[4]
  • O. calaniculatus Trautschold, 1879[5]
  • O. cochisensis Yochelson, 1956[3]
  • O. hessensis Yochelson, 1956[3]
  • O. kalitvaensis Licharev, 1940[5]
  • O. kalmiussi Zernetskaya, 1967[6]
  • O. karakubensis Zernetskaya, 1967[7]
  • O. obtusispira Shumard, 1859[8]
  • O. spinosus Yochelson, 1956[3]
  • O. whitneyi Meek, 1864[3]
  • O. wolfcampensis Yochelson, 1956[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P.; Frýda, J.; Hausdorf, B.; Ponder, W.; Valdes, A.; Warén, A. (2005). "A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names". Malacologia. 47 (1–2): 1–368.
  2. ^ Yochelson, Ellis L. (6 August 1954). "Some Problems Concerning the Distribution of the Late Paleozoic Gastropod Omphalotrochus". Science. 120 (3110): 233–234. Bibcode:1954Sci...120..233Y. doi:10.1126/science.120.3110.233. PMID 17737420.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Yochelson, E. L.; Bowsher, A.L. (1956). "Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 1. Euomphalacea, Trochonematacea, Pesudophoracea, Anomphalacea, Craspedostomatacea, and Platyceratacea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 110 (3): 173–276. hdl:2246/1768. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  4. ^ Badyrka, Kira; Clapham, Matthew E.; López, Shirley (October 2013). "Paleoecology of brachiopod communities during the late Paleozoic ice age in Bolivia (Copacabana Formation, Pennsylvanian–Early Permian)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 387: 56–65. Bibcode:2013PPP...387...56B. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.07.016. S2CID 42512923.
  5. ^ a b Mazaev, A.V. (1994). "Middle and Upper Carboniferous gastropods from the central part of the Russian Plate: part 1. Euomphalacea". Ruthenica. 4 (1): 21–33.
  6. ^ Zernetskaya, N.V. (1967). "Gastropoda fauna of the Lower Visean of Donetz Basin". Fauna of the Lower Visean Deposits of Greater Donbas. pp. 30–42.
  7. ^ Zernetskaya, N.V. (1967). "Gastropoda fauna of the Lower Visean of Donetz Basin". Fauna of the Lower Visean Deposits of Greater Donbas. pp. 30–42.
  8. ^ Kues, B.S. (1995). "Marine fauna of the Early Permian (Wolfcampian) Robledo Mountains Member, Hueco Formation, southern Robledo Mountains, New Mexico". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 6: 63–90.