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Europrotomus

Europrotomus is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, true conches, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.

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Europrotomus
Temporal range: Middle Miocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Strombidae
Genus: Europrotomus
Kronenberg & Harzhauser, 2011

Europrotomus is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, true conches, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.

Species

Species within the genus Europrotomus include:

This genus was described by Gijs C. Kronenberg and Mathias Harzhauser in 2012 especially for the fossil species previously known as Strombus schroeckingeri.1 That species existed during the Miocene in what is now Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.

References

References

  1. Gijs C. Kronenberg and Mathias Harzhauser (2012). "Europrotomus (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Strombidae): a new Middle Miocene European strombid genus (Revision of Euprotomus Gill, 1870. Part 4)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 86 (2): 147–159. Bibcode:2012PalZ...86..147K. doi:10.1007/s12542-011-0121-1. S2CID 128742076.