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Melania scalaris J. De C. Sowerby, 1829 †
1422732 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1422732)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum (status and classification uncertain)
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
fossil only
Sowerby, J. De C. (1829). List of fossil shells in the fresh-water formations of Aix and Fuveau, in Provence. In: Murchison, R. I.; Lyell, C., Eds., On the Tertiary Fresh-water Formations of Aix, in Provence, including the coal-field of Fuveau. <em>The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.</em> 1829: 297., available online at https://books.google.de/books?id=Ym1QAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 297 [details]
page(s): 297 [details]
Note Fuveau, Bouches-du-Rhône, France; late...
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Type locality Fuveau, Bouches-du-Rhône, France; late Santonian to early Campanian, late Cretaceous [details]
Homonymy Junior homonym of Melania scalaris Spix, 1827.
Homonymy Junior homonym of Melania scalaris Spix, 1827. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melania scalaris J. de C. Sowerby, 1829 †. Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1422732 on 2025-09-11
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Sowerby, J. De C. (1829). List of fossil shells in the fresh-water formations of Aix and Fuveau, in Provence. In: Murchison, R. I.; Lyell, C., Eds., On the Tertiary Fresh-water Formations of Aix, in Provence, including the coal-field of Fuveau. <em>The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.</em> 1829: 297., available online at https://books.google.de/books?id=Ym1QAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 297 [details]
basis of record Roule, L. (1886). Nouvelle recherches sur les mollusques du terrain lacustre inférieur de Provence. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2: 195-228., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16301303
page(s): 201 [details]
page(s): 297 [details]
basis of record Roule, L. (1886). Nouvelle recherches sur les mollusques du terrain lacustre inférieur de Provence. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 2: 195-228., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16301303
page(s): 201 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
