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From Shellmuseum.org

Good Morning! One of the largest gastropods that ever lived, Campanile giganteum is a fossil from the Eocene Epoch, about 45 million-years before present. It lived in the Paris Basin in France, thriving at a time when what is now the City of Lights (and a big chunk of France, by the way) was under sea water. The species belongs in the family Campanilidae and its only living relative is Campanile symbolicum from Australia, a herbivore species known to the locals as the Giant Creeper. The photo, by Ian Glasspool, shows Paul Mayer from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago holding a 54 cm (about 21 inches) C. giganteum that was on exhibit during the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) in the Windy City. More?

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