Ampullina Explained

Ampullina is an extinct taxonomic genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda. These sea snails were epifaunal grazers. They lived from the Middle Triassic period to the Lower Pliocene age.

Species

• Ampullina aethiopica Jaboli, 1959
• Ampullina anguillana Cooke, 1919
• Ampullina bravoensis Olsson, 1931
• Ampullina butleri McNamara & Kendrick, 1994
• Ampullina effusa Tate, 1893
• † Ampullina? multistriata (Baily, 1855) ^[1]
• 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 vaughani Cooke, 1928
• Ampullina woodsi Hanna & Israelsky, 1925
• Natica (Ampullina) gabbi Clark, 1917

References

• Ampullina in the Paleobiology Database
• Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database

Notes and References

1. Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475