Ampullinidae

Ampullinidae
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Shell of Ampullina sp. - Oligocene from Savona (Italy)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Campaniloidea
Family:	Ampullinidae Cossman, 1918
Synonyms
Ampullospiridae Cox, 1930 Gyrodinae Wenz, 1938 Globulariinae Wenz, 1941 Pseudamauridae Kowalke & Bandel, 1996

Ampullinidae are an extinct taxonomic family of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda.

The shells of species in this family resemble those of naticids. Sea snails of this family lived from the Triassic period to the Pliocene age of the Cenozoic.

Taxonomy

No subfamilies in this family are recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).

Classification

The contents and synonymy of Ampullinidae have been treated by the World Register of Marine Species after Lozouet et al. (2001), Kase & Ishikawa (2003) and Bandel (2006). The position in Campaniloidea is based on anatomical data on Globularia fluctuata (Kase, 1990; Healy, pers. comm., sperm morphology), but Ampullinoidea is treated as distinct superfamily by Lozouet et al. (2001) and Bandel (2006).

Genera

Genera within the family Ampullinidae include:

• Ampullina Bowdich, 1822 - the type genus
• Amaurellina Fischer 1885
• Ampullinopsis Conrad 1865
• Ampullonatica Sacco 1890
• Cernina Gray, 1842
• Globularia Swainson 1840
• Pachycrommium Woodring 1928
• Warakia Harzhauser 2007

See also

List of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record

References

• Ampullinidae in the Paleobiology Database

• M. Pacaud and J. Le Renard. 1995. Révision des Mollusques Paléogénes du Bassin de Paris. IV - Liste systématique actualisée. Cossmanniana 3(4):155-187
• P. Lozouet, J.-F. Lesport, and R. Renard. 2001. Révision des Gastropoda (Mollusca) du stratotype de L'Aquitanien (Miocéne inf.)" site de Saucats "Lariey", Gironde, France. Cossmanniana 8:1-189
• P. Bouchet, J.-P. Rocroi, J. Frýda, B. Hausdorf, W. Ponder, A. Valdes, and A. Warén. 2005. A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names. Malacologia 47(1-2):1-368
• Y. Okan and I. Hosgor. 2008. The Ampullinid Gastropod Globularia (Swainson 1840) from the late Thanetian-early Ilerdian Kirkkavak formation (Polatli-Ankara) of the Tethyan realm. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 17:758-801
• M. Harzhauser, M. Euter, W. E. Piller, B. Berning, A. Kroh and O. Mandic. 2009. Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83:333-372