original description
Pantanelli, D. (1877). Regia Accademia dei Fisiocritici. Direzione del Museo di Geologia e Mineralogia. Rapporto annuale 1876. <em>Atti della Regia Accademia dei Fisiocritici, ser. 3.</em> 1 (7), 259-265. [details]
additional source
Kadolsky D.; Binder H.; Neubauer T.A. (2016). Taxonomic review of the fossil land gastropod species hitherto placed in the genus <i>Galactochilus</i> Sandberger 1875, with the description of a new genus (Gastropoda: Helicoidea). <em>Archiv für Molluskenkunde.</em> 145(2): 151-188.
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Classification The brief original description for the specimens from the late Miocene (Messinian?) of Gallozzole in the Casino Basin, Italy, by Pantanelli (1877: 4) indicates a huge shell with a height of 42 mm and a diameter of 55 mm and 4.5 whorls, a depressed spire, and a round, oblique aperture with thickened and reflected peristome (see also Pantanelli 1879: 314). The illustrations in De Stefani (1880: 36, pl. 3, fig. 6) moreover show a covered umbilicus. It was listed as Galactochilus by Boettger & Wenz (1921: 18) and Wenz (1923: 497-498). The characteristics of the protoconch unfortunately remain unknown to us, and so we cannot safely confirm this classification. [details]
Type locality Gallozzole, Siena, Italy; late Messinian, late Miocene [details]