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Fossil shell of Globularia gibberosa | |
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(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda |
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Genus: | Globularia Swainson 1840 |
Globularia is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ampullinidae.
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]
Tulip snail or tulip shell is the common name for eight species of large, predatory, subtropical and tropical sea snails from the Western Atlantic. These species are in the genus Fasciolaria. They are marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle shells, tulip shells and their allies.
Persicula is a taxonomic genus of minute to small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. It includes several species which are micromollusks.
Homalopoma, common name the dwarf turbans, is a genus of mostly very small sea snails with a calcareous operculum, marine gastropoda molluscs in the subfamily Colloniinae of the family Colloniidae.
Benhamina obliquata is a species of air-breathing sea snail, a false limpet, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Siphonariidae.
Ampullinidae are a mostly extinct taxonomic family of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda.
Pleuroploca is a genus of very large predatory sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, which includes the spindle shells, the tulip shells and other allied genera.
Cassis, common name the helmet shells, is a genus of very large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cassidae, the helmet shells and their allies. This is the type genus of the subfamily Cassinae.
Merica is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Costoanachis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
Triplofusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.
Cyllene is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the nassa mud snails or dog whelks.
Lucapina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.
Pupillaea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.
Babylonia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Babyloniidae.
Enaeta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.
Anolacia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ancillariidae.
Zemiropsis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Babyloniidae.
Trichotropis is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Capulidae, the cap snails.
Blasicrura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Trigonostoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.