Ampullina

Ampullina
Shell of Ampullina sp. - Oligocene from Savona (Italy)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Campaniloidea
Family:	Ampullinidae
Genus:	Ampullina
Synonyms
Natica (Ampullina) (alternative spelling) Ampullella Cox 1931 Globularia (Ampulella) Cox 1931

Ampullina is an extinct taxonomic genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda. These sea snails were epifaunal grazers. They lived from the Jurassic period to the Upper Miocene age.

Species

• Ampullina aethiopica Jaboli, 1959
• Ampullina anguillana Cooke, 1919
• Ampullina bravoensis Olsson, 1931
• Ampullina butleri McNamara & Kendrick, 1994
• Ampullina effusa Tate, 1893
• Ampullina ortoni Gabb, 1870
• Ampullina packardi Popenoe, 1937
• Ampullina paracasina Rivera, 1957
• Ampullina pichinka Cataldo & Lazo, 2016
• Ampullina solidula Dall, 1892
• Ampullina subhumerosa White, 1887
• Ampullina vaughani Cooke, 1928
• Ampullina woodsi Hanna & Israelsky, 1925
• Natica (Ampullina) gabbi Clark, 1917

See also

List of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record

References

• Ampullina in the Paleobiology Database
• Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database