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Campanile giganteum

Campanile giganteum
Campanile giganteum.jpg
Shell of Campanile giganteum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Campaniloidea
Family: Campanilidae
Genus: Campanile
Species: C. giganteum
Binomial name
Campanile giganteum
(Lamarck, 1804)

Campanile giganteum is a species of exceptionally large fossil sea snail, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Campanilidae. This species dates from the Eocene epoch. With a shell length of 40 to 60 cm [1] 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.



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