Ampullina
Extinct genus of gastropods
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Ampullina is an extinct taxonomic genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda. These sea snails were epifaunal grazers. They lived from the Middle Triassic period to the Lower Pliocene age.
| Ampullina Temporal range: Middle Triassic-Early Pliocene, | |
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| Shell of Ampullina sp. - Oligocene from Savona (Italy) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Ampullinidae |
| Genus: | †Ampullina |
| Type species | |
| Natica depressa Lamarck, 1844 | |
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Species
- Ampullina aethiopica Jaboli, 1959
- Ampullina anguillana Cooke, 1919
- Ampullina bravoensis Olsson, 1931
- Ampullina butleri McNamara & Kendrick, 1994
- Ampullina effusa Tate, 1893
- Ampullina? multistriata (Baily, 1855) [1]
- Ampullina ortoni Gabb, 1870
- Ampullina packardi Popenoe, 1937
- Ampullina paracasina Rivera, 1957
- Ampullina pichinka Cataldo & Lazo, 2016
- Ampullina solidula Dall, 1892
- Ampullina subhumerosa White, 1887
- Ampullina vastanensis Banerjee & Halder, 2024
- Ampullina vaughani Cooke, 1928
- Ampullina woodsi Hanna & Israelsky, 1925
- Ampullina gabbi Clark, 1917
