Poleumita

Poleumita is an extinct genus of medium-sized sea snails, fossil marine gastropods in the family Euomphalidae. This genus is known from the Silurian period.[1]

Poleumita
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: †Euomphalidae
Genus: †Poleumita
Clarke & Ruedemann, 1903
Species
  • † Poleumita alatum
  • † Poleumita anabarica
  • † Poleumita crenulata
  • † Poleumita discors
  • † Poleumita gyrans
  • † Poleumita haliburtoni
  • † Poleumita hudsonica
  • † Poleumita myeri
  • † Poleumita prosseri
  • † Poleumita rugaelineata
  • † Poleumita rugosa
  • † Poleumita scamnata
  • † Poleumita semiplanus
  • † Poleumita sulcata
  • † Poleumita walmstedti
Synonyms
  • Polytropina
  • Polytropis

References
  1. Wagner, P. J. (2004). "Phylogenetic Relationships of the Earliest Anisostrophically Coiled Gastropods". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 88: 1–152. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.88.1.
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