Campanile giganteum | |
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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.