Europrotomus

Europrotomus
Temporal range: Middle Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
cladeLittorinimorpha
Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Strombidae
Genus: †Europrotomus
Kronenberg & Harzhauser, 2011
Species

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Europrotomus is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, true conches, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.

Species

Species within the genus Europrotomus include:

  • †Europrotomus schroeckingeri

This genus was described by Gijs C. Kronenberg and Mathias Harzhauser in 2012 especially for the fossil species previously known as Strombus schroeckingeri.[1] That species existed during the Miocene in what is now Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.

References

  1. ↑ Gijs C. Kronenberg and Mathias Harzhauser (2012). "Europrotomus (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Strombidae): a new Middle Miocene European strombid genus (Revision of Euprotomus Gill, 1870. Part 4)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. in press. doi:10.1007/s12542-011-0121-1.
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