Campanile (gastropod)

Campanile is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Campanilidae.

Campanile
Shell of the fossil species Campanile giganteum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:
Campaniloidea
Family:
Campanilidae
Genus:
Campanile

Bayle in Fischer, 1884[1]
Synonyms
  • † Campanile (Campanilopa) Iredale, 1917 · accepted, alternate representation
  • † Campinalopa Iredale, 1917
  • Ceratoptilus Bouvier, 1887 (junior objective synonym of Campanile)
  • Cerithium (Campanile) P. Fischer, 1884 (original rank)

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:

  • † Campanile auvertianum
  • † Campanile brookmani Cox 1930
  • † Campanile claytonense
  • † Campanile cornucopiae
  • † Campanile dilloni
  • † Campanile elongatum
  • † Campanile giganteum (Lamarck, 1804) - a gigantic fossil species from the Eocene
  • † Campanile gigas Martin 1881
  • † Campanile greenellum
  • † Campanile hebertianum
  • † Campanile houbricki[3]
  • † Campanile parisiense
  • † Campanile paratum
  • Campanile symbolicum Iredale, 1917 - a living Australian species. This is the only extant species of Campanilidae.[4]
  • † Campanile tchihatcheffi d’Archiac 1850
  • † Campanile trevorjacksoni Portell & Donovan, 2008 - a fossil species from the Eocene[5][6]
  • † Campanile uniplicatum (d'Orbigny, 1850)
  • † Campanile villaltai

References
  1. Fischer P. (1884). Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paleontologie Conchyliologique. F. Savy, Paris. 609-688. page 680.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. (in Czech) de Bruyne R. H. (2004). Encyklopedie ulit a lastur. Rebo Productions, 336 pp., ISBN 80-7234-288-6, page 82.
  5. 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.
  6. 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


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