Campanile cornucopiae
| Campanile cornucopiae Temporal range: Eocene | |
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| Fossil shell of Campanile cornucopiae from France | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Campaniloidea |
| Family: | Campanilidae |
| Genus: | Campanile |
| Species: | †C. cornucopiae |
| Binomial name | |
| †Campanile cornucopiae Sowerby, 1818 | |
Campanile cornucopiae is a species of fossil sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Campanilidae. This species lived during the Eocene epoch(from 56 to 33.9 million years ago). [1][2]
The shells reached a length of about 50 millimetres (2.0 in).
References
- ↑ A GÜNGÖR ETUDE DES ESPÈCES DU GENRE
- ↑ MNHN
External links
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