Campanile giganteum
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| Campanile giganteum Temporal range: | |
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| Shell of Campanile giganteum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Campanilidae |
| Genus: | Campanile |
| Species: | C. giganteum |
| Binomial name | |
| Campanile giganteum (Lamarck, 1804) | |
†Campanile giganteum is a species of exceptionally large fossil sea snail, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Campanilidae[1]. This species dates from the Eocene epoch around 40-50 million years ago[2]. With a shell length of 40 to 90 cm (16 to 35 in)[3][4] or even more than 120 cm (47 in)[5] 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, France.
