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): 93, pl. 2, fig. 30 [details]
basis of record
Bandel, K., Sivan, N. & Heller, J. (2007). Melanopsis from Al-Qarn, Jordan Valley (Gastropoda: Cerithoidea). Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 81 (3): 304-315. Stuttgart [30 September]., available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20220615171620/http://www.paleoliste.de/bandel/bandel_2007c.pdf
page(s): 311 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Gesher ("the type-locality of the Upper Pliocene sediments or the ’Erq el-Ahmar Formation in the Jordan Valley south of the Sea of Galilee"), Israel; Gelasian, early Pleistocene [details]