Miolyncina

Miolyncina; Temporal range: Eocene - Pliocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Fossil of Miolyncina conjungens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Subfamily:	Luriinae
Genus:	Miolyncina; Schilder 1932

Miolyncina is an extinct genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Fossil record

Fossils of Miolyncina are found in marine strata from the Eocene to the Pliocene (age range: from 48.6 to 2.588 million years ago.). Fossils are known from Italy, France, India, Pakistan, Poland and Sri Lanka.

Species

†Miolyncina cocconii Mayer-Eymar 1875
†Miolyncina conjungens Sacco 1894
†Miolyncina prevostina Grateloup 1847

References

^ "The Paleobiology Database". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2016-11-01.

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