Amonilea Cossmann, 1920

Harzhauser, Mathias, 2021, The Cainozoic to present-day record of Circum-Mediterranean, NE Atlantic and North Sea Cantharidinae and Trochinae (Trochoidea, Gastropoda) - a synopsis, Zootaxa 4902 (1), pp. 1-81 : 17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4902.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4439761
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scientific name	Amonilea Cossmann, 1920
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Genus Amonilea Cossmann, 1920 View in CoL †

Type species. Trochus parnensis Bayan, 1870 View in CoL , type species by typification of replaced name, ( Cossmann 1920: 137), Eocene, France.

Diagnosis. Small to medium-sized sigaretiform shells with strongly prosocline aperture; deep umbilicus with deeply excavated umbilical atrium. Shell surface smooth or with weak spiral cords.

Remarks. The unique umbilical features characterize this genus, which is restricted to the Lutetian to Rupelian of the NE Atlantic and the Rupelian of the Western Tethys.

= Moniliopsis Cossmann, 1918 (non Conrad, 1865)

= Moniliopsidea Tomlin, 1930, junior objective synonym of Amonilea Cossmann, 1920 .