Melanopsis tricarinata Sowerby in Fitton, 1836
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Melanopsis tricarinata Sowerby in Fitton, 1836 |
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† Melanopsis tricarinata Sowerby in Fitton, 1836 View in CoL [invalid]
Original source.
Fitton 1836: 228, 346, pl. 22, fig. 4.
Type horizon.
Weald Clay, early Cretaceous.
Type locality.
“Punfield”, United Kingdom.
Remarks.
Appeared first as nomen nudum (as " Melania tricarinata ") in Fitton (1824: 376). Junior secondary homonym of Melanopsis tricarinata ( Bruguière, 1789). Sandberger (1870: 55) considered this species as a junior synonym of Pleurocera strombiforme (Schlotheim, 1820) ( Pleuroceridae ).
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