Ampullinidae Explained

Ampullinidae are a mostly extinct taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda.^[1] The shells of species in this family resemble those of naticids. Sea snails of this family lived from the Triassic period to the Pliocene age of the Cenozoic.

But when the extant species Cernina fluctuata is considered as a member of this family, then Ampullinidae is extant.

Taxonomy

No subfamilies in this family are recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).

The contents and synonymy of Ampullinidae have been treated by the World Register of Marine Species after Lozouet et al. (2001), Kase & Ishikawa (2003) and Bandel (2006). The position in Campaniloidea is based on anatomical data on Cernina fluctuata (Kase, 1990; Healy, pers. comm., sperm morphology), but Ampullinoidea is treated as distinct superfamily by Lozouet et al. (2001) and Bandel (2006).

Genera

Genera within the family Ampullinidae include:

• Ampullina Bowdich, 1822 - the type genus
• Amaurellina Fischer 1885
• Ampullinopsis Conrad 1865
• Ampullonatica Sacco 1890
• Cernina Gray, 1842
• Crommium Cossmann, 1888
• Globularia Swainson 1840
• Pachycrommium Woodring 1928
• Warakia Harzhauser 2007

References

• Ampullinidae in the Paleobiology Database
• M. Pacaud and J. Le Renard. 1995. Révision des Mollusques Paléogénes du Bassin de Paris. IV - Liste systématique actualisée. Cossmanniana 3(4):155-187
• P. Lozouet, J.-F. Lesport, and R. Renard. 2001. Révision des Gastropoda (Mollusca) du stratotype de L'Aquitanien (Miocéne inf.)" site de Saucats "Lariey", Gironde, France. Cossmanniana 8:1-189
• P. Bouchet, J.-P. Rocroi, J. Frýda, B. Hausdorf, W. Ponder, A. Valdes, and A. Warén. 2005. A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names. Malacologia 47(1-2):1-368
• Y. Okan and I. Hosgor. 2008. The Ampullinid Gastropod Globularia (Swainson 1840) from the late Thanetian-early Ilerdian Kirkkavak formation (Polatli-Ankara) of the Tethyan realm. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 17:758-801
• M. Harzhauser, M. Euter, W. E. Piller, B. Berning, A. Kroh and O. Mandic. 2009. Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 83:333-372
• Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2013). Ampullinidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411664 on 2013-06-28