Melanopsis polita Pallary, 1916

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 219

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136

publication LSID

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5F02836B-34FF-A77F-DCF4-8A6DC8AD7331

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scientific name

Melanopsis polita Pallary, 1916
status

 

Melanopsis polita Pallary, 1916

Original source.

Pallary 1916: 79.

Type horizon.

Sparnacian, early Ypresian, Eocene.

Type locality.

“Pourcy” ( Cossmann 1909: captions of pl. 3), France.

Remarks.

Introduced for Melania buccinoidea sensu Cossmann, 1909 (p. 171, pl. 3, figs 21-22) and Cossmann, 1910 (in Cossmann and Pissarro 1906 - 1913: pl. 19, fig. 118-1). Wenz (1929: 2662) considered it as a junior synonym of Melanopsis antidiluviana .