Europrotomus

Europrotomus; Temporal range: Middle Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; cladeLittorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Stromboidea
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	†Europrotomus; Kronenberg & Harzhauser, 2011
Species
	See text

Europrotomus is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, true conches, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.

Species

Species within the genus Europrotomus include:

†Europrotomus schroeckingeri

This genus was described by Gijs C. Kronenberg and Mathias Harzhauser in 2012 especially for the fossil species previously known as Strombus schroeckingeri.^[1] That species existed during the Miocene in what is now Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.

References

^ Gijs C. Kronenberg and Mathias Harzhauser (2012). "Europrotomus (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Strombidae): a new Middle Miocene European strombid genus (Revision of Euprotomus Gill, 1870. Part 4)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. in press. doi:10.1007/s12542-011-0121-1.

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[1] Gijs C. Kronenberg and Mathias Harzhauser (2012). "Europrotomus (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Strombidae): a new Middle Miocene European strombid genus (Revision of Euprotomus Gill, 1870. Part 4)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. in press. doi:10.1007/s12542-011-0121-1.

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