MolluscaBase name details
Melania turritissima Lyell, 1855 †
1262984 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1262984)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
fossil only
Lyell, C. (1855). A Manual of Elementary Geology, or the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological Monuments. <em>London: John Murray.</em> 655 pp., available online at https://archive.org/details/Lyell1855ya42W
page(s): 209, textfig. 182 [details]
page(s): 209, textfig. 182 [details]
Note Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Great Britain;...
From editor or global species database
Type locality Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Great Britain; Bembridge Limestone Formation or Bouldnor Formation (Gurnard Member), Priabonian, late Eocene [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melania turritissima Lyell, 1855 †. Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1262984 on 2025-09-11
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
original description
Lyell, C. (1855). A Manual of Elementary Geology, or the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological Monuments. <em>London: John Murray.</em> 655 pp., available online at https://archive.org/details/Lyell1855ya42W
page(s): 209, textfig. 182 [details]
additional source Forbes, E. (1853). On the Fluvio-marine Tertiaries of the Isle of Wight <em>The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London</em>. 9: 259-270, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34983380
page(s): 266 [details]
redescription Forbes, E. (1856). On the Tertiary Fluvio-marine Formation of the Isle of Wight Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 162 pp., available online at https://books.google.at/books?id=YibPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 150-151, pl. 3, fig. 14 [details]
new combination reference Munt, M.C. (2014). Mollusca from the Insect Limestone (Bembridge Marls Member: Bouldnor Formation: Solent Group), Palaeogene, Isle of Wight, southern England <em>Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh</em>. 104: 263-274, available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691014000048
page(s): 267, pl. 1, fig. 4 [details]
page(s): 209, textfig. 182 [details]
additional source Forbes, E. (1853). On the Fluvio-marine Tertiaries of the Isle of Wight <em>The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London</em>. 9: 259-270, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34983380
page(s): 266 [details]
redescription Forbes, E. (1856). On the Tertiary Fluvio-marine Formation of the Isle of Wight Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 162 pp., available online at https://books.google.at/books?id=YibPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 150-151, pl. 3, fig. 14 [details]
new combination reference Munt, M.C. (2014). Mollusca from the Insect Limestone (Bembridge Marls Member: Bouldnor Formation: Solent Group), Palaeogene, Isle of Wight, southern England <em>Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh</em>. 104: 263-274, available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691014000048
page(s): 267, pl. 1, fig. 4 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
