Ampullinopsis

Ampullinopsis
Temporal range: PaleoceneMiocene
Shell of Ampullinopsis crassatina from Lower Oligocene, Savona (Italy)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Campaniloidea
Family: Ampullinidae
Genus: Ampullinopsis
Conrad 1865
Synonyms
  • Ampullina (Ampullinopsis) (alternative spelling)
  • Globularia (Ampullinopsis) (alternative spelling)

Ampullinopsis is an extinct taxonomic genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha. These sea snails were epifaunal grazers. Sea snails of this genus lived from Paleocene epoch to Miocene epoch (age range: 48.6 to 20.43 million years ago).

Species

See also

List of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record

References


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