Alvania curta is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | †A. curta
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| †Alvania curta (Dujardin, 1837)
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Subgenus:
- † Alvania curta var. mioelongata Peyrot, 1938
- † Alvania curta nieheimensis Hinsch, 1972: accepted as † Alvania curta (Dujardin, 1837) (within the variability of the nominate)
- † Alvania curta rarecostata Friedberg, 1923 (taxon inquirendum)
Distribution
editFossils of this species were in Lower Oligocene strata near Mérignac, Gironde,[2] France and in Upper Tortonian strata near Vienna, Austria.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). "Alvania curta (Dujardin, 1837) †". MolluscaBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species WoRMS at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=872790 on 2024-02-08
- ^ Glibert, Maxime (1962). Les Mesogastropoda fossiles du Cénozoïque étranger des collections de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (PDF). Mémoires deuxiéme série, fascicule 69 (in French). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. p. 54. Première partie Part 1 – Cyclophoridae à Stiliferidae (inclus).
Sources
edit- Kowalke, T.; Harzhauser, M. (2004). "Early ontogeny and palaeoecology of the Mid-Miocene rissoid gastropods of the Central Paratethys". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49 (1): 111–134.
External links
edit- Dujardin, F. (1837). "Mémoire sur les couches du sol en Touraine, et description des coquilles de la craie et des faluns". Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France. 2 (2): 211–311, pls 15–21.
