Ampullina

Ampullina
Shell of Ampullina sp. - Oligocene from Savona (Italy)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Campaniloidea
Family: Ampullinidae
Genus: Ampullina
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 Jurassic period to the Upper Miocene age.

Species

See also

List of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record

References


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