Crommium

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Crommium
Temporal range: Paleocene - Eocene
Naticidae - Crommium ferrugineum.JPG
Fossil shell of Crommium ferrugineum
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Ampullinidae
Genus: Crommium
Cossmann, 1888
Synonyms[1]
  • Amaurellina (Crommium) Cossmann, 1904 †

Crommium is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ampullinidae.[1]

Species[]

Species within the genus Crommium include:[2]

  • Crommium andersoni Dickerson, 1914
  • Crommium angustatum Grateloup, 1828
  • Crommium ferrugineum (Great.)
  • Crommium globosa Perrilliat et al., 2006
  • Crommium hosgori Pacaud, 2016
  • Crommium intermedia Deshayes, 1832
  • Crommium masinguiensis Clark and Durham, 1946
  • Crommium palmasensis Clark and Durham, 1946
  • Crommium palmerae Clark and Durham, 1946
  • Crommium perovatum Conrad, 1846
  • Crommium pinyonensis Dickerson, 1914
  • Crommium pseudowillemeti Eames, 1952
  • Crommium rouaulti d'Archiac and Haime, 1854
  • Crommium willemettii Deshayes, 1825

Fossils of the sea snails within this genus have been found in sediments of Europe, United States, Colombia, Somalia and Nigeria from Paleocene to Eocene (age range: 61.7 to 23.03 million years ago).[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. "Crommium Cossmann, 1888 †". www.molluscabase.org. Retrieved 2022-01-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. ^ a b Fossilworks


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