Campanile giganteum

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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{{Taxobox

| fossil_range = Eocene

| image = Campanile giganteum.jpg

| image_caption = Shell of Campanile giganteum

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Gastropoda

| unranked_superfamilia = clade Caenogastropoda

| superfamilia = Campaniloidea

| familia = Campanilidae

| genus = Campanile

| species = †C. giganteum

| binomial = †Campanile giganteum

| binomial_authority = (Lamarck, 1804)

| synonyms =

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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. With a shell length of {{cvt|40|to|90|cm}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20090812045838/http://www.lacaveauxcoquillages.fr/la_plage_coquilliere.html La plage coquillière]. La Cave aux Coquillages 33.(0)3.26.58.36.43{{cite journal |last1=Zuerich |first1=ETH-Bibliothek |title=Giant gastropods of the genus Campanile from the Caribbean Eocene |journal=E-Periodica |url=https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=egh-001:1987:80::1248 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615114321/https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=egh-001:1987:80::1248 |archive-date=15 June 2022 |language=de}} or even more than {{cvt|120|cm}}[http://vertebresfossiles.free.fr/tempsgeol/cerithium_giganteum.html Cerithium giganteum ou Campanile giganteum]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160728205144/http://vertebresfossiles.free.fr/tempsgeol/cerithium_giganteum.html Archived copy] from 28 July 2016. 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.