Over 10 extinct species Gastrocopta is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Gastrocoptidae.

[3] Gastrocopta is the type genus of the subfamily Gastrocoptinae.

[1] The Recent distribution of Gastrocopta includes North America, eastern Asia, central Asia[1] and South America (Brazil[5] and Venezuela).

In Europe, the genus Gastrocopta has been extirpated; its fossils there are known mainly from the Neogene, but its fossil range in Europe is from the Oligocene to the Lower Pleistocene.

[1][6] Species within the genus Gastrocopta include: subgenus Vertigopsis Sterki, 1892[13]