Miolyncina

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Miolyncina
Temporal range: Eocene - Pliocene
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Fossil of Miolyncina conjungens
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus:† Miolyncina
Schilder 1932

Miolyncina is an extinct genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. [1]

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Fossil record

Fossils of Miolyncina are found in marine strata from the Eocene to the Pliocene (age range: from 48.6 to 2.588 million years ago.). Fossils are known from Italy, France, India, Pakistan, Poland and Sri Lanka.

Species

References

  1. ↑ "The Paleobiology Database". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
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