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Alvania dissensia

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Alvania dissensia
Shell of Alvania dissensia (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. dissensia
Binomial name
Alvania dissensia
Van Dingenen, Ceulemans & Landau, 2016

Alvania dissensia is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

Distribution

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Fossils of this species were in the Lower Pliocene strata in the Loire-Atlantique, France.

References

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  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania dissensia Van Dingenen, Ceulemans & Landau, 2016 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1319651 on 2024-02-10

Van Dingenen F., Ceulemans L. & Landau B.M. (2016). The lower Pliocene gastropods of Le Pigeon Blanc (Loire-Atlantique, north west France), 2. Caenogastropoda. Cainozoic Research. 16(2): 109-219