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Campanile cornucopiae

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Species of gastropod

Campanile cornucopiae
Temporal range: Eocene PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil shell of Campanile cornucopiae from France
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Campaniloidea
Family: Campanilidae
Genus: Campanile
Species: C. cornucopiae
Binomial name
Campanile cornucopiae
Sowerby, 1818

Campanile cornucopiae is a species of fossil sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Campanilidae. This species lived during the Eocene epoch, from 56 to 33.9 million years ago.

The shells reached a length of about 50 millimetres (2.0 in).

References

  1. A Güngör. Etude des Espèces du Genre Archived 2015-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. MNHN

External links

Taxon identifiers
Campanile cornucopiae


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