Biology:Valvata aphanotylopsis

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Short description: Extinct species of gastropod

Valvata aphanotylopsis
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Family: Valvatidae
Genus: Valvata
Species:
†V. aphanotylopsis
Binomial name
†Valvata aphanotylopsis
Brusina, 1902
Synonyms

† Valvata (Valvata) aphanotylopsis Brusina, 1902 alternative representation

Valvata (Valvata) aphanotylopsis is an extinct species of small freshwater snail in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails. This species is known only from fossil material. [1]

Distribution and fossil record

Fossils of Valvata aphanotylopsis have been recorded from Lower Miocene (Pontian) deposits in the Balkans. The species was originally described by S. Brusina in 1902 based on specimens from Begalijica, Serbia.[2][3]

References

  • Brusina, S. (1902). Iconographia Molluscorum Fossilium in tellure tertiaria Hungariae, Croatiae, Slavoniae, Dalmatiae, Bosniae, Herzegovinae, Serbiae and Bulgariae inventorum. Officina Soc. Typographicae, Agram.

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