Odostomia milium (Lea, 1846), new comb.

Cunha, Carlo M. & Salvador, Rodrigo B., 2018, Type specimens of fossil " Architectibranchia " and Cephalaspidea (Mollusca, Heterobranchia) in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Zoosystematics and Evolution 94 (2), pp. 505-527 : 505

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.27401
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scientific name	Odostomia milium (Lea, 1846), new comb.
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Treatment

Odostomia milium (Lea, 1846), new comb. Figure 6S

Acteon milium Lea, 1846: 257, pl. 36, fig. 61.

Type locality.

Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, USA. Type stratum: Yorktown Formation. Age: Late Miocene to Middle Pliocene.

Type material.

Syntypes, ANSP IP1520, 1 shell, ANSP IP79385, 1 shell (lost, not found in the vial).

Taxonomical reassessment.

This species is better classified in the genus Odostomia due to the following conchological features ( Robba 2013): verall ovate-conical shell with moderately convex whorls, suture with a blunt subsutural margin, slit-like umbilicus, and prominent columellar fold.