Campanile giganteum
| Campanile giganteum Temporal range: Eocene
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| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda
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| Genus: | Campanile
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| Species: | †C. giganteum
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| †Campanile giganteum (Lamarck, 1804)
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†Campanile giganteum is a species of exceptionally large fossil sea snail, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Campanilidae. This species dates from the Eocene epoch. With a shell length of 40 to 60 cm [1] this is considered to be one of the largest (lengthwise) species of shelled gastropod that ever lived. It is found mostly in the Paris Basin.
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Categories:
- Campanilidae
- Eocene gastropods
- Paleogene gastropods of Europe
- Fossil taxa described in 1804
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