Prozonarina
Prozonarina Temporal range:
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Subfamily: | Cypraeinae
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Genus: | Prozonarina Schilder, 1941
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Prozonarina is an extinct genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1][2]
Fossil record[]
Fossils of Prozonarina are found in marine strata from the Oligocene to the Miocene (age range: from 23.03 to 5.332 million years ago.). Fossils are known from Italy, France, Italy, Malta, Poland, Romania, Turkey and Greece.
Species[]
- †Prozonarina barcamorpha Dolin and Lozouet, 2004
- †Prozonarina brocchii Deshayes, 1844
- †Prozonarina expansa Grateloup, 1847
- †Prozonarina fabagina Lamarck, 1810
- †Prozonarina haueriana Dolin and Lozouet, 2004
- †Prozonarina maxima Grateloup, 1847
- †Prozonarina regalis Dolin and Lozouet, 2004
References[]
Categories:
- Cypraeidae
- Cypraeidae stubs