Crommium Temporal range:
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Fossil shell of Crommium ferrugineum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Family: | Ampullinidae |
Genus: | †Crommium Cossmann, 1888 |
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Crommium is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ampullinidae.[1]
Species within the genus Crommium include:[2]
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]