Ampullina

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Ampullina
Temporal range: Middle Triassic-Early Pliocene, Anisian–Zanclean
Gastropoda - Ampullina sp.JPG
Shell of Ampullina sp. - Oligocene from Savona (Italy)
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Ampullina
Type species
Natica depressa Lamarck, 1844
Synonyms
  • Natica (Ampullina) (alternative spelling)
  • Ampullella Cox 1931
  • Globularia (Ampulella) Cox 1931

Ampullina is an extinct taxonomic genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda. These sea snails were epifaunal grazers. They lived from the Middle Triassic period to the Lower Pliocene age.

Species[]

  • Jaboli, 1959
  • Cooke, 1919
  • Olsson, 1931
  • McNamara & Kendrick, 1994
  • Tate, 1893
  • Ampullina? multistriata (Baily, 1855) [1]
  • Gabb, 1870
  • Popenoe, 1937
  • Rivera, 1957
  • Cataldo & Lazo, 2016
  • Dall, 1892
  • White, 1887
  • Cooke, 1928
  • Hanna & Israelsky, 1925
  • Clark, 1917

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References[]

  1. ^ Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475


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