Miolyncina

Miolyncina
Temporal range: Eocene - Pliocene
Fossil of Miolyncina conjungens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Subfamily: Luriinae
Genus: Miolyncina
Schilder 1932

Miolyncina is an extinct genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

Fossil record

Fossils of Miolyncina are found in marine strata from the Eocene to the Pliocene (age range: from 48.6 to 2.588 million years ago.). Fossils are known from Italy, France, India, Pakistan, Poland and Sri Lanka.

Species

  • †Miolyncina cocconii Mayer-Eymar 1875
  • †Miolyncina conjungens Sacco 1894
  • †Miolyncina prevostina Grateloup 1847

References

  1. ↑ "The Paleobiology Database". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2016-11-01.


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