Melanopsis praecursor Schuett in Schuett & Ortal, 1993

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 222

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E76ECCDE-420F-5468-9ED7-EA11A1D8E8FD

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scientific name

Melanopsis praecursor Schuett in Schuett & Ortal, 1993
status

 

Melanopsis praecursor Schuett in Schuett & Ortal, 1993

Original source.

Schütt and Ortal 1993: 93, pl. 2, fig. 30.

Type horizon.

Early Pleistocene.

Type locality.

"The type-locality of the Upper Pliocene sediments or the 'Erq el-Ahmar Formation in the Jordan Valley south of the Sea of Galilee" [i.e. 'Erq el-Ahmar (also known as Gesher)], Israel.

Types.

Paleontology Collection of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; no number indicated.