Campanile (gastropod)

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

Biology

All species in this genus have become extinct, except Campanile symbolicum <small>Iredale, 1917</small> from southwestern Australia. They used to flourish in the Tethys Sea and underwent a widespread adaptive radiation in the Cenozoic.

Species

Species within the genus Campanile include:

• † Campanile auvertianum
• † Campanile brookmani Cox 1930
• † Campanile claytonense
• † Campanile cornucopiae
• † Campanile dilloni
• † Campanile elongatum
• † Campanile giganteum <small>(Lamarck, 1804)</small> - a gigantic fossil species from the Eocene
• † Campanile gigas <small>Martin 1881</small>
• † Campanile greenellum
• † Campanile hebertianum
• † Campanile houbricki
• † Campanile parisiense
• † Campanile paratum
• Campanile symbolicum Iredale, 1917 - a living Australian species. This is the only extant species of Campanilidae.
• † Campanile tchihatcheffi d’Archiac 1850
• † Campanile trevorjacksoni Portell & Donovan, 2008 - a fossil species from the Eocene
• † Campanile uniplicatum <small>(d'Orbigny, 1850)</small>
• † Campanile villaltai

References

• 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