Campanile giganteum
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| Campanile giganteum | |
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| Shell of Campanile giganteum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Campaniloidea |
| Family: | Campanilidae |
| Genus: | Campanile |
| Species: | †C. giganteum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Campanile giganteum (Lamarck, 1804) | |
†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 this is considered to be one of the largest (lengthwise) species of shelled gastropod that ever lived. It is found mostly in the Paris Basin.
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