Crommium

Crommium is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Crommium
Temporal range: Paleocene - Eocene
Fossil shell of Crommium ferrugineum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Naticoidea
Family:
Naticidae
Subfamily:
Ampullospirinae
Genus:
Crommium

Cossmann 1888

Species

Species within the genus Crommium include:[1]

  • † Crommium andersoni Dickerson, 1914
  • † Crommium ferrugineum (Great.)
  • † Crommium globosa Perrilliat et al., 2006
  • † Crommium hosgori Pacaud, 2016
  • † Crommium intermedia Deshayes, 1832
  • † Crommium masinguiensis Clark and Durham, 1946
  • † Crommium palmasensis Clark and Durham, 1946
  • † Crommium palmerae Clark and Durham, 1946
  • † Crommium perovatum Conrad, 1846
  • † Crommium pinyonensis Dickerson, 1914
  • † Crommium pseudowillemeti Eames, 1952
  • † Crommium rouaulti d'Archiac and Haime, 1854
  • † Crommium willemettii Deshayes, 1825

Fossils of the sea snails within this genus have been found in sediments of Europe, United States, Colombia, Somalia and Nigeria from Paleocene to Eocene (age range: 61.7 to 23.03 million years ago).[1]

References
  1. Fossilworks


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