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Bithynia
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Description
Bithynia sp.
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Material examined. BSPG 1952 XVIII 18 (3 opercula).
Previous identification of the material. Gall (1980: Nr. 34): Bithynia (Bithynia) cf. glabra (Zieten). Discussion. The only fossils of this genus in the material from Gündlkofen are opercula; their overall shape and concentric growth pattern indicate the genus Bithynia, but identification at species level is impossible. Paleoecological remarks. Recent Bithynia species live in richly vegetated slow moving or standing waters, some are also found in temporary water bodies (Welter-Schultes 2012).
Notes
Published as part of Salvador, Rodrigo B., 2014, The fossil land and freshwater snails of Gündlkofen (Middle Miocene, Germany), pp. 271-287 in Zootaxa 3785 (2) on page 273, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/224845
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Bithyniidae
- Genus
- Bithynia
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Gall, H. (1980) Eine Gastropodenfauna aus dem Landshuter Schotter der Oberen Sußwassermolasse (Westliche Paratethys, Badenien) von Gundlkofen / Niederbayern. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung fur Palaontologie und historische Geologie, 20, 51 - 77.
- Welter-Schultes, F. (2012) European Non-marine Molluscs, a Guide for Species Identification. Planet Poster Editions, Gottingen, 679 + 78 pp.