Ampullina

Ampullina is an extinct taxonomic genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda. These sea snails were epifaunal grazers. They lived from the Middle Triassic period to the Lower Pliocene age.

Ampullina
Temporal range: Middle Triassic-Early Pliocene, Anisian–Zanclean
Shell of Ampullina sp. - Oligocene from Savona (Italy)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:
Campaniloidea
Family:
Ampullinidae
Genus:
†Ampullina
Type species
Natica depressa Lamarck, 1844
Synonyms
  • Natica (Ampullina) (alternative spelling)
  • Ampullella Cox 1931
  • Globularia (Ampulella) Cox 1931

Species
  • Ampullina aethiopica Jaboli, 1959
  • Ampullina anguillana Cooke, 1919
  • Ampullina bravoensis Olsson, 1931
  • Ampullina butleri McNamara & Kendrick, 1994
  • Ampullina effusa Tate, 1893
  • † Ampullina? multistriata (Baily, 1855) [1]
  • Ampullina ortoni Gabb, 1870
  • Ampullina packardi Popenoe, 1937
  • Ampullina paracasina Rivera, 1957
  • Ampullina pichinka Cataldo & Lazo, 2016
  • Ampullina solidula Dall, 1892
  • Ampullina subhumerosa White, 1887
  • Ampullina vaughani Cooke, 1928
  • Ampullina woodsi Hanna & Israelsky, 1925
  • Natica (Ampullina) gabbi Clark, 1917

See also

List of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record

References
  1. Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475


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