Published December 11, 2023 | Version v1
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Naticidae Guilding 1834

  • 1. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Palaeobiology, Box 50007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden.
  • 2. Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali, 51, Via Medaglie D'Oro 51, 48018 Faenza, Italy.
  • 3. Institute of Marine Sciences, Italian National Research Council, Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy; and Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy.

Description

Naticidae indet. 2

Fig. 6H

Material examined

ITALY – Emilia-Romagna • 1 spec.; Guzzano; MGGC 22305 (H = 6.4, W = 5.7 mm).

Description

Naticiform shell with very low spire, smooth apart from fine growth increments, aperture relatively narrow.

Remarks

This single specimen has a very low spire and is almost involute. With these features it differs markedly from the species mentioned above, as well as from any other fossil naticid reported from Italy (Robba et al. 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Kiel, Steffen, Sami, Marco & Taviani, Marco, 2023, Mollusks (Gastropoda, Bivalvia) from Miocene cold-seep deposits in northern Italy: revisions and additions, pp. 115-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 910 on page 132, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.910.2365, http://zenodo.org/record/10350702

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MGGC
Family
Naticidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
MGGC 22305
Order
Littorinimorpha
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Guilding
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Naticidae Guilding, 1834 sec. Kiel, Sami & Taviani, 2023

References

  • Robba E., Pedriali L. & Quaggiotto E. 2016. Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene naticid gastropods of northern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 122: 109 - 234.