Biology:Prozonarina

Short description: Extinct genus of gastropods

Prozonarina Temporal range: Oligocene - Miocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
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)

Prozonarina is an extinct genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Zonariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Fossil record

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.

Species

• †Prozonarina barcamorpha Dolin and Lozouet, 2004
• †Prozonarina brocchii Deshayes, 1844
• †Prozonarina expansa Grateloup, 1847
• †Prozonarina fabagina Lamarck, 1810
• †Prozonarina haueriana Dolin and Lozouet, 2004
• †Prozonarina maxima Grateloup, 1847
• † Prozonarina mineurensis Dolin & Lozouet, 2004
• † Prozonarina nigricans Dolin & Lozouet, 2004
• †Prozonarina regalis Dolin and Lozouet, 2004

External links

• Schilder F.A. (1941). Verwandtschaft und Verbreitung der Cypraeacea. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 73(2-3): 57-120

Wikidata ☰ Q28432143 entry