original description
Schütt, H.; Ortal, R. (1993). A preliminary correlation between the plio-pleistocene malacofaunas of the Jordan Valley (Israel) and the Orontes Valley (Syria). <em>Zoology in the Middle East.</em> 8(1): 69-112., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.1993.10637638
page(s): 88-89, pl. 3, fig. 50 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality "Israel, the type-locality of the Upper Pliocene sediments of the 'Erq el-Ahmar Formation in the Jordan Valley south or the of Galilee; 'shovel road, limonite layer'." [details]