Campanile is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Campanilidae.
Biology
All species in this genus have become extinct, except Campanile symbolicum Iredale, 1917 from southwestern Australia. They used to flourish in the Tethys Sea and underwent a widespread adaptive radiation in the Cenozoic.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Campanile include:
References
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^ Fischer P. (1884). Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paleontologie Conchyliologique. F. Savy, Paris. 609-688. page 680.
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^ Richard S. Houbrick, Anatomy, Biology and Systematics of Campanile symbolicum with reference to adaptive radiation of the Cerithiacea (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia); Malacologia 1981 31 (1-2): 263-289
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^ Kiel S., Bandel K., Banjac N. & Perrilliat M. C. (2000). "On Cretaceous Campanilidae (Caenogastropoda, Mollusca)". Freiberger Forschungshefte ser. C, 490(8): 67-132. page 89. abstract
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^ (in Czech) de Bruyne R. H. (2004). Encyklopedie ulit a lastur. Rebo Productions, 336 pp., ISBN 80-7234-288-6, page 82.
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^ Portell R. W. & Donovan S. K. (2008). "Campanile trevorjacksoni sp. nov. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Eocene of Jamaica: at last, a name for the first fossil used in intercontinental biostratigraphic correlation (de la Beche 1827)". Geological Journal 43(5): 542-551. doi:10.1002/gj.1128.
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^ Mitchell F. S. (2009). "Discussion of Campanile trevorjacksoni sp. nov. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Eocene of Jamaica—at last, a name for the first fossil used in intercontinental biostratigraphic correlation (de la Beche 1827): (v. 43, p. 542–551)". Geological Journal 44(4): 494-496. doi:10.1002/gj.1155.
- Fossilworks: Campanile
- M. Harzhauser. 2007. Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 280:75-121
