Genus Campanile | Scientific name Campanile giganteum Rank Species | |
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Similar Campanile, Clavilithes, Campanile symbolicum, Velates, Cameroceras | ||
†Campanile giganteum is a species of exceptionally large fossil sea snail, 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 (lengthwise) species of shelled gastropod that ever lived. It is found mostly in the Paris Basin.
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