Campanile is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Campanilidae.

Campanile
Shell of the fossil species Campanile giganteum
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Campanile

Bayle in Fischer, 1884[1]
Synonyms
  • Campanile (Campanilopa) Iredale, 1917 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Campinalopa Iredale, 1917
  • Ceratoptilus Bouvier, 1887 (junior objective synonym of Campanile)
  • Cerithium (Campanile) P. Fischer, 1884 (original rank)

Biology edit

All species in this genus have become extinct, except Campanile symbolicum Iredale, 1917 from southwestern Australia. They used to flourish in the Tethys Sea and underwent a widespread adaptive radiation in the Cenozoic.[2]

Species edit

Species within the genus Campanile include:

References edit

  1. ^ Fischer P. (1884). Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paleontologie Conchyliologique. F. Savy, Paris. 609-688. page 680.
  2. ^ Richard S. Houbrick, Anatomy, Biology and Systematics of Campanile symbolicum with reference to adaptive radiation of the Cerithiacea (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia); Malacologia 1981 31 (1-2): 263-289
  3. ^ Kiel S., Bandel K., Banjac N. & Perrilliat M. C. (2000). "On Cretaceous Campanilidae (Caenogastropoda, Mollusca)". Freiberger Forschungshefte ser. C, 490(8): 67-132. page 89. abstract Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ (in Czech) de Bruyne R. H. (2004). Encyklopedie ulit a lastur. Rebo Productions, 336 pp., ISBN 80-7234-288-6, page 82.
  5. ^ Portell R. W. & Donovan S. K. (2008). "Campanile trevorjacksoni sp. nov. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Eocene of Jamaica: at last, a name for the first fossil used in intercontinental biostratigraphic correlation (de la Beche 1827)". Geological Journal 43(5): 542-551. doi:10.1002/gj.1128.
  6. ^ Mitchell F. S. (2009). "Discussion of Campanile trevorjacksoni sp. nov. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Eocene of Jamaica—at last, a name for the first fossil used in intercontinental biostratigraphic correlation (de la Beche 1827): (v. 43, p. 542–551)". Geological Journal 44(4): 494-496. doi:10.1002/gj.1155.
  • Fossilworks: Campanile
  • M. Harzhauser. 2007. Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 280:75-121