Prozonarina is an extinct genus of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Zonariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1][2]

Prozonarina
Temporal range: Oligocene - Miocene
Fossil shell of Prozonarina fabagina
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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)

Fossil record

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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.

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