Globularia (gastropod)

Globularia
Fossil shell of Globularia gibberosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Campaniloidea
Family: Ampullinidae
Genus: Globularia
Swainson 1840

Globularia is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ampullinidae.

Species

Species within the genus Globularia include:[1]

Fossils of the sea snails within this genus have been found all over the world in sediments from Jurassic to Miocene (age range: 189.6 to 5.332 million years ago).[1]


See also

List of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record

References

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