Miolyncina

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Miolyncina
Temporal range: Eocene - Pliocene
Fossil of Miolyncina conjungens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Cypraeoidea
Family:
Cypraeidae
Subfamily:
Luriinae
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]

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

  • †Miolyncina cocconii Mayer-Eymar 1875
  • †Miolyncina conjungens Sacco 1894
  • †Miolyncina prevostina Grateloup 1847

References

  1. ^ Paleobiology Database


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