Purpuroidea blaschkei Schenk, 1969

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 55

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/037FBD43-83C7-24A3-433A-1C14F69F8B92

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scientific name

Purpuroidea blaschkei Schenk, 1969
status

 

Purpuroidea blaschkei Schenk, 1969

Original source.

Schenk 1969: 39, pl. 1, fig. 15.

Type horizon.

Late Santonian to early Campanian, late Cretaceous.

Type locality.

“Zöttbachalm bei Brandenberg, Tirol" [ Zöttbachalm near Brandenberg, Tyrol], Austria.

Remarks.

The species was originally attributed to the marine genus Purpuroidea Lycett, 1848 ( Purpuroideidae ), but considered as a junior synonym of the melanopsid Megalonoda spiniger (Sowerby in Sedgwick & Murchison, 1832) by Kollmann (1984: 58).