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Extinct genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prozonarina is an extinct genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Zonariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1][2]
Prozonarina Temporal range: | |
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Fossil shell of Prozonarina fabagina | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
Family: | Cypraeidae |
Genus: | †Prozonarina Schilder, 1941 |
Type species | |
† Cypraea brocchii Deshayes, 1844 | |
Synonyms | |
† Zonarina (Prozonarina) Schilder, 1941 (original rank) |
Fossils of Prozonarina are found in marine strata from the Oligocene to the Miocene (age range: from 23.03 to 5.332 million years ago.). Fossils are known from Italy, France, Italy, Malta, Poland, Romania, Turkey and Greece.
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