Crommium

Crommium
Temporal range: Paleocene - Eocene
Fossil shell of Crommium ferrugineum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Ampullinidae
Genus: †Crommium
Cossmann, 1888
Synonyms[1]
  • Amaurellina (Crommium) Cossmann, 1904 †

Crommium is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ampullinidae.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Crommium include:[2]

  • † Crommium andersoni Dickerson, 1914
  • † Crommium angustatum Grateloup, 1828
  • † Crommium ferrugineum (Great.)
  • † Crommium globosa Perrilliat et al., 2006
  • † Crommium hosgori Pacaud, 2016
  • † Crommium intermedia Deshayes, 1832
  • † Crommium masinguiensis Clark and Durham, 1946
  • † Crommium palmasensis Clark and Durham, 1946
  • † Crommium palmerae Clark and Durham, 1946
  • † Crommium perovatum Conrad, 1846
  • † Crommium pinyonensis Dickerson, 1914
  • † Crommium pseudowillemeti Eames, 1952
  • † Crommium rouaulti d'Archiac and Haime, 1854
  • † Crommium willemettii Deshayes, 1825

Fossils of the sea snails within this genus have been found in sediments of Europe, United States, Colombia, Somalia and Nigeria from Paleocene to Eocene (age range: 61.7 to 23.03 million years ago).[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Crommium Cossmann, 1888 †". MolluscaBase. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
  2. ^ a b Fossilworks


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