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Campanile (gastropod)

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Campanile
Temporal range: Eocene– Recent
Shell of the fossil species Campanile giganteum
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Campanile

Bayle in Fischer, 1884[1]
Synonyms
  • Campanile (Campanilopa) Iredale, 1917 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Campinalopa Iredale, 1917
  • Ceratoptilus Bouvier, 1887 (junior objective synonym of Campanile)
  • Cerithium (Campanile) P. Fischer, 1884 (original rank)

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

Biology

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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

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Species within the genus Campanile include:

References

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  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 Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  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