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.[1][2]
Campanile cornucopiae Temporal range:
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Fossil shell of Campanile cornucopiae from France | |
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(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda
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Species: | †C. cornucopiae
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†Campanile cornucopiae Sowerby, 1818
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The shells reached a length of about 50 millimetres (2.0 in).
References
edit- ^ A Güngör. Etude des Espèces du Genre Archived 2015-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ MNHN
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