Ampullinopsis
| Ampullinopsis Temporal range: Paleocene – Miocene | |
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| Shell of Ampullinopsis crassatina from Lower Oligocene, Savona (Italy) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Campaniloidea |
| Family: | Ampullinidae |
| Genus: | Ampullinopsis Conrad 1865 |
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Ampullinopsis is an extinct taxonomic genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha. These sea snails were epifaunal grazers. Sea snails of this genus lived from Paleocene epoch to Miocene epoch (age range: 48.6 to 20.43 million years ago).
Species
- Ampullinopsis birmanica Vredenburg 1922
- Ampullinopsis crassatina Lamarck 1804
- Ampullinopsis spenceri Cooke 1919
- Ampullinopsis (Globularia) altivapicana Eames 1952
See also
List of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record
References
- Ampullinopsis in the Paleobiology Database
- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
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