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''Ampullina'' is an extinct
taxonomic 280px, Generalized scheme of taxonomy Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme of classes (a taxonomy) and the allocation ...
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of deep-water
sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s, marine
gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s in the
clade In biology, a clade (), also known as a Monophyly, monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that is composed of a common ancestor and all of its descendants. Clades are the fundamental unit of cladistics, a modern approach t ...
Caenogastropoda Caenogastropoda is a taxonomic subclass of molluscs in the class Gastropoda. It is a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marine gastropod mollusks, but also includes some freshwater snails and some land snails. The subcla ...
. These sea snails were epifaunal grazers. They lived from the Middle
Triassic The Triassic ( ; sometimes symbolized šŸˆ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya. The Triassic is t ...
period to the Lower
Pliocene The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch (geology), epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58Ampullina aethiopica'' Jaboli, 1959 * '' Ampullina anguillana'' Cooke, 1919 * '' Ampullina bravoensis'' Olsson, 1931 * '' Ampullina butleri'' McNamara & Kendrick, 1994 * '' Ampullina effusa'' Tate, 1893 * ''Ampullina? multistriata'' (Baily, 1855) Kiel S. (2003) ''New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa)''; Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475 * '' 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 vastanensis'' Banerjee & Halder, 2024 * '' Ampullina vaughani'' Cooke, 1928 * '' Ampullina woodsi'' Hanna & Israelsky, 1925 * '' Ampullina gabbi'' Clark, 1917


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''Ampullina''
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Paleobiology Database The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms. History The Paleobiology Database originated in the NCEAS-funded Phanerozoic Marine Pale ...
*Sepkoski, Jac
Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
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