Alvania gourbesvillensis

Alvania gourbesvillensis
Shell of † Alvania gourbesvillensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
†A. gourbesvillensis
Binomial name
†Alvania gourbesvillensis
(Cossmann, 1921)
Synonyms

† Arsenia gourbesvillensis Cossmann, 1921 (Arsenia regarded as a junior synonym of Alvania)

Alvania gourbesvillensis is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in Pliocene strata in Lower Normandy, France.

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania gourbesvillensis (Cossmann, 1921) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=991155 on 2024-01-31
  • Glibert, M. (1952). Faune malacologique du Miocène de la Belgique. II Gastropodes. Mémoire Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique 121. 1–197; plates I-X.


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