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Miolyncina

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Cypraeidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Cypraeoidea

Subfamily
  
Luriinae

Miolyncina

Miolyncina is an extinct genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

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Fossil record

Fossils of Miolyncina are found in marine strata from the Eocene to the Pliocene (age range: from 48.6 to 2.588 million years ago.). Fossils are known from Italy, France, India, Pakistan, Poland and Sri Lanka.

Species

  • Miolyncina cocconii Mayer-Eymar 1875
  • Miolyncina conjungens Sacco 1894
  • Miolyncina prevostina Grateloup 1847
  • References

    Miolyncina Wikipedia