''Ampullinopsis'' is an extinct
taxonomic
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genus of deep-water
sea snail
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusc
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s in the
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Sorbeoconcha
Sorbeoconcha is a taxonomic clade of snails, i.e. gastropods, mainly marine species with gills and opercula, within the clade Caenogastropoda.
The taxon Sorbeoconcha was named by Winston Ponder and David R. Lindberg in 1997.
Taxonomy
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. These sea snails were epifaunal grazers.
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
s of this genus lived from
Paleocene epoch to
Miocene epoch (age range: 48.6 to 20.43 million years ago).
Species
* ''
Ampullinopsis birmanica''
Vredenburg 1922
* ''
Ampullinopsis crassatina''
Lamarck 1804
* ''
Ampullinopsis spenceri''
Cooke 1919
* ''
Ampullinopsis (Globularia) altivapicana'' Eames 1952
References
''Ampullinopsis''in the
Paleobiology Database
* Sepkoski, Jac
Sepkoski's Online Genus Database* A. A. Olsson. 1931. ''Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene''. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(63)
* W. P. Woodring. 1959. ''Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae).'' United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(B):147-239
* M. W. A. Iqbal. 1973. ''Biostratigraphy of the Tiyon Formation (Middle Eocene) of Sind, Pakistan''. Records of the Geological Survey of Pakistan 22:1-40
* H. S. Ladd. 1977. ''Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae)''. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 533:1-84
* R. Majima. 1989. ''Cenozoic fossil Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Japan''. Bulletins of American Paleontology 96(331):1-159
* J. J. Sepkoski. 2002. ''A compendium of fossil marine animal genera''. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
* M. Harzhauser. 2004. ''Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran).'' Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 248:93-181
* 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
Ampullinopsis
Miocene genus extinctions
Paleocene first appearances
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