Melanopsis cerithiformis Watelet, 1851
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Melanopsis cerithiformis Watelet, 1851 |
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† Melanopsis cerithiformis Watelet, 1851
Original source.
Watelet 1851: 121, pl. 1, figs 1-2.
Type horizon.
Cuisian, late Ypresian, Eocene.
Type locality.
“Mercin” [Mercin-et-Vaux], France.
Remarks.
Cossmann (1888: 279) classified the species in the genus Faunus Montfort, 1810 ( Pachychilidae ). Wenz (1929: 2637) apparently agreed with that classification but listed it a second time (p. 2563) in synonymy of Semisinus [= Hemisinus ] resectus (Deshayes, 1834).
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