Melanopsis sparnacensis Pallary, 1916

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 257

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136

publication LSID

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/15592814-70AF-A918-E825-DF6DDB9ABF7A

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scientific name

Melanopsis sparnacensis Pallary, 1916
status

 

Melanopsis sparnacensis Pallary, 1916

Original source.

Pallary 1916: 77.

Type horizon.

Sparnacian, early Ypresian, Eocene.

Type locality.

“Épernay”, France.

Remarks.

Based on a specimen illustrated by Férussac (1823: pl. 7, fig. 7) as " Melanopsis buccinoidea var. γ) antiqua ; elongata ". Note that Melanopsis sparnacensis was not included in the catalogus of Wenz (1929).