Campanile giganteum

†Campanile giganteum is a species of exceptionally large fossil sea snail, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Campanilidae. This species dates from the Eocene epoch around 40-50 million years ago. With a shell length of 40 to 90 cm or even more than 120 cm (47 in) this is considered to be one of the largest (lengthwise) species of shelled gastropod that ever lived. It is found mostly in the Paris Basin, France.

Campanile giganteum

Claire H. from New York City, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CampanilePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Campanilidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Campanilidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Campanilidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 18 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya41.03 Mya56.5 Mya37.2 Mya

18 occurrences of Campanile giganteum on record, most of them in the Eocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

18 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

6 formations

Shekhan — 33.60°N, 71.51°EShekhan — 33.48°N, 71.39°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WPromina — 43.95°N, 16.12°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.10°EMokattam — 30.03°N, 31.26°EChorgali — 32.69°N, 72.88°EKirkkavak — 39.65°N, 32.29°E

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The named rock units Campanile giganteum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Campanile giganteum and its relatives

Eocene

Where Campanile giganteum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

626 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Campanile giganteum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

9 references

Each of the 18 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Campanile giganteum

Credit
Claire H. from New York City, USA
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCampanile through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1804)