Campanile giganteum explained

†Campanile giganteum is a species of exceptionally large fossil sea snail, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Campanilidae. This species dates from the Eocene epoch. With a shell length of ^{[1] [2]} or even more than ^[3] this is considered to be one of the largest (lengthwise) species of shelled gastropod that ever lived. It is found mostly in the Paris Basin, France.

External links

• ZipcodeZoo info at: Campanile giganteum (Archived copy)
• In French, a cave in France with many of these fossils: La plage coquillière (Archived copy)
• A good image of one: Cerithium giganteum ou Campanile giganteum. Archived copy from 28 July 2016.

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20090812045838/http://www.lacaveauxcoquillages.fr/la_plage_coquilliere.html La plage coquillière
2. Zuerich . ETH-Bibliothek . Giant gastropods of the genus Campanile from the Caribbean Eocene . E-Periodica . https://web.archive.org/web/20220615114321/https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=egh-001:1987:80::1248 . 15 June 2022 . de.
3. http://vertebresfossiles.free.fr/tempsgeol/cerithium_giganteum.html Cerithium giganteum ou Campanile giganteum