Ampullinidae are a mostly extinct

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of deep-water

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The shells of species in this family resemble those of naticids. Sea snails of this family lived from the

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

Taxonomy

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in this family are recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). The contents and synonymy of Ampullinidae have been treated by the

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after Lozouet et al. (2001), Kase & Ishikawa (2003) and Bandel (2006). The position in Campaniloidea is based on anatomical data on '' Globularia 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 * ''

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'' Swainson 1840 * '' Pachycrommium'' Woodring 1928 * '' Warakia'' Harzhauser 2007

References

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* 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

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