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Melania tenuicostata Matheron, 1843 †
1427537 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1427537)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Melania Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Thiara Röding, 1798
fossil only
Matheron, P. (1843). Catalogue méthodique et descriptif des corps organisés fossiles du départment des Bouches-du-Rhône et lieux circonvoisins. <em>Répertoire des travaux de la Société de statistique de Marseille.</em> 6: 81-341., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5719359d/f81.image
page(s): 290-291, pl. 36, figs 19-22 [details]
page(s): 290-291, pl. 36, figs 19-22 [details]
Note Late Santonian to early Campanian (late...
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Type locality Late Santonian to early Campanian (late Cretaceous): Peynier; Rognacien (late Campanian to Maastrichtian, late Cretaceous): Les Baux-de-Provence and Rognac; all Bouches-du-Rhône, France [details]
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Matheron, P. (1843). Catalogue méthodique et descriptif des corps organisés fossiles du départment des Bouches-du-Rhône et lieux circonvoisins. <em>Répertoire des travaux de la Société de statistique de Marseille.</em> 6: 81-341., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5719359d/f81.image
page(s): 290-291, pl. 36, figs 19-22 [details]
additional source Heer, O. (1861). Recherches sur le climat et la végétation du pays tertiaire. Jean Wurster & Comp., Winterthur, 220 + xxii pp., available online at https://books.google.de/books?id=2qL7UYqPXvkC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 121 [details]
page(s): 290-291, pl. 36, figs 19-22 [details]
additional source Heer, O. (1861). Recherches sur le climat et la végétation du pays tertiaire. Jean Wurster & Comp., Winterthur, 220 + xxii pp., available online at https://books.google.de/books?id=2qL7UYqPXvkC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 121 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Classification Matheron in Heer (1861) considered the species a terrestrial Megaspiridae but without indicating a genus. Attributed to the clausilioid genus Palaeostoa by Oppenheim (1895), which was followed by Fabre-Taxy (1959). [details]Type locality Late Santonian to early Campanian (late Cretaceous): Peynier; Rognacien (late Campanian to Maastrichtian, late Cretaceous): Les Baux-de-Provence and Rognac; all Bouches-du-Rhône, France [details]
