Amaurellina levesquei (d’Orbigny, 1850)

Caze, Bruno, Merle, Didier, Meur, Mathieu Le, Pacaud, Jean-Michel, Ledon, Daniel & Martin, Jean-Paul Saint, 2011, Taxonomic implications of the residual colour patterns of ampullinid gastropods and their contribution to the discrimination from naticids, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (2), pp. 329-347 : 339

Amaurellina levesquei (d’Orbigny, 1850)

Fig. 7D–F .

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Early Eocene, Ypresian (Cuisian) (PB)

Colour pattern description.—The shells show two levels of residual colouration: a heterogeneous background with a slightly fluorescent area covering the major part of the shell (apex, spire, last whorl) except two dark “stripes”. The adapical one is on the median part of the whorl and is thinner than the other one located on the base of the shell ( Fig. 7D, E ). On a few well−preserved shells, some slightly fluorescent axial stripes are distinguishable ( Fig. 7F ). These axial stripes, especially distinguishable on the spire, are slightly prosocline.

Figures

Fig. 7. Species of the genus Amaurellina Bayle in Fischer, 1840, under UV light. A. Amaurellina spirata (Lamarck, 1804), MNHN A30484 (MNHN coll.), Grignon, Yvelines, France, Lutetian, in dorsal (A1) and apical (A2) views. B. Amaurellina spirata (Lamarck, 1804), MNHN A30884 (Faullummel coll.), Fontenay−en−Vexin, Eure, France, Lutetian, in dorsal view. C. Amaurellina spirata (Lamarck, 1804), MNHN A30485 (MNHN coll.), Grignon, in dorsal view. D. Amaurellina levesquei (d’Orbigny, 1850), MNHN A30879 (Faullummel coll.), Monampteuil, Aisne, France, Ypresian (Cuisian), in dorsal view. E. Amaurellina levesquei (d’Orbigny, 1850), MNHN A30878 (Faullummel coll.), Monampteuil, in dorsal view. F. Amaurellina levesquei (d’Orbigny, 1850), MNHN A30948 (MNHN coll.), Cuise−Lamotte, Oise, France, Ypresian (Cuisian), in dorsal view. G. Amaurellina sinuosa (d’Orbigny, 1850), MNHN A30432 (Faullummel coll.), Saint−Gobain, Aisne, France, Ypresian (Cuisian), in ventral (G1) and dorsal (G2) views. H. Amaurellina sinuosa (d’Orbigny, 1850), MNHN A30431 (Faullummel coll.), Saint−Gobain, in ventral (H1) and dorsal (H2) views. I. Amaurellina sinuosa (d’Orbigny, 1850), MNHN A30887 (Faullummel coll.), Saint−Gobain, in dorsal view. J. Amaurellina paludiniformis (d’Orbigny, 1850), MNHN A30490 (Faullummel coll.), Saint−Gobain, in ventral (J1) and dorsal (J2) views. K. Amaurellina paludiniformis (d’Orbigny, 1850), MNHN A30492 (Faullummel coll.), Saint−Gobain, in dorsal view. L. Amaurellina tuba (Deshayes, 1864), MNHN J02215 (Cossmann coll.), Hermonville, Marne, France, Lutetian, in ventral view. Scale bars 10 mm (A–C), 5 mm (D–L). Photographs by C. Lemzaouda and P. Loubry (MNHN).