Campanile (gastropod)

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

Campanile
Shell of the fossil species Campanile giganteum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:
Campaniloidea
Family:
Campanilidae
Genus:
Campanile

Bayle in Fischer, 1884[1]

Biology

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

Species within the genus Campanile include:

  • † Campanile auvertianum
  • † Campanile brookmani Cox 1930
  • † Campanile claytonense
  • † Campanile cornucopiae
  • † Campanile dilloni
  • † Campanile elongatum
  • † Campanile giganteum (Lamarck, 1804) - a gigantic fossil species from the Eocene
  • † Campanile gigas Martin 1881
  • † Campanile greenellum
  • † Campanile hebertianum
  • † Campanile houbricki[3]
  • † Campanile parisiense
  • † Campanile paratum
  • Campanile symbolicum Iredale, 1917 - a living Australian species. This is the only extant species of Campanilidae.[4]
  • † Campanile tchihatcheffi d’Archiac 1850
  • † Campanile trevorjacksoni Portell & Donovan, 2008 - a fossil species from the Eocene[5][6]
  • † Campanile villaltai

References
  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
  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


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