Globularia (gastropod)
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''Globularia'' is an extinct
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 ...
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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 family Ampullinidae.


Species

Species within the genus ''Globularia'' include:Fossilworks
/ref> * †''Globularia brevispira'' Cox 1930 * †''Globularia carlei'' Finlay 1927 * †''Globularia catanlilensis'' Weaver 1931 * †''Globularia compressa'' Basterot 1825 * †''Globularia coxi '' Stefanini 1939 * †''Globularia fischeri'' Dall 1892 * †''Globularia formosa'' Morris and Lycett 1851 * †''Globularia gibberosa'' Grateloup 1847 * †''Globularia grossa'' Deshayes 1864 * †''Globularia hatimi'' Abbass 1972 * †''Globularia hemisphaerica'' Roemer 1836 * †''Globularia morrisi'' Cox and Arkell 1949 * †''Globularia sanctistephani'' Cossmann and Peyrot 1919 * †''Globularia sireli'' Okan and Hosgor 2008 * †''Globularia sulcata'' Cox 1930 * †''Globularia vapincana'' d'Orbigny 1850 * †''Globularia vredenburgi '' Cox 1927 * †''Globularia zemmourensis'' Cox 1969 ; not accepted names: * †'' Globularia fluctuata'' (Sowerby I, 1825), accepted as '' Cernina fluctuata'' (Sowerby I, 1825) Fossils of the sea snails within this genus have been found all over the world in sediments from
Jurassic The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately 143.1 Mya. ...
to
Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first epoch (geology), geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and mea ...
(age range: 189.6 to 5.332 million years ago).


References

Globularia ''Globularia'' is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants in the family (biology), family Plantaginaceae, native plant, native to central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. They are dense low evergreen ...
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