| Campanile giganteum | |
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| Shell of Campanile giganteum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Campaniloidea |
| Family: | Campanilidae |
| Genus: | Campanile |
| Species: | †C. giganteum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Campanile giganteum (Lamarck, 1804) |
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†Campanile giganteum is a species of exceptionally large fossil sea snails, 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 (longest) species of shelled gastropod that ever lived. It is found mostly in the Paris Basin.