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Ampullina

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Ampullina
Temporal range: Middle Triassic-Early Pliocene, Anisian–Zanclean
Shell of Ampullina sp. - Oligocene from Savona (Italy)
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Ampullina
Type species
Natica depressa Lamarck, 1844
Synonyms
  • Natica (Ampullina) (alternative spelling)
  • Ampullella Cox 1931
  • Globularia (Ampulella) Cox 1931

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.

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References

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  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