Campanile giganteum
| Campanile giganteum Temporal range:
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| Shell of Campanile giganteum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Campanilidae |
| Genus: | Campanile |
| Species: | C. giganteum
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| Binomial name | |
| Campanile giganteum (Lamarck, 1804)
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†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 (16 to 35 in) 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.